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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021

Filed:

May. 21, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Daniel Battaiola Kreling, Hortolandia, BR;

Rafael Camarda Silva Folco, Santa Barbara d'Oeste, BR;

Breno H. Leitao, Araraquara, BR;

Mauro Sergio Martins Rodrigues, Campinas, BR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4416 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 15/17331 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

Booting a virtual machine instance using remote direct memory access is provided. In response to beginning to receive pages of a predetermined set of pages corresponding to a requested image of a virtual machine from an image provider server, a boot process of an instance of the virtual machine is commenced while the received pages are written directly into a random-access memory (RAM) disk. The received pages are read from the RAM disk during the boot process of the instance of the virtual machine until transfer of the predetermined set of pages corresponding to the requested image is complete. The predetermined set of pages corresponding to the requested image are written to a local hard disk drive from the memory releasing memory usage. In response to completing the boot process, a RAM image is switched to a local hard disk drive image.


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