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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Salman A. Baset, New York, NY (US);
Hai Huang, White Plains, NY (US);
Manas Singh, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Byung Chul Tak, Elmsford, NY (US);
Chunqiang Tang, Ossining, NY (US);
Long Wang, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for updating an application executing on a virtual machine includes replicating the virtual machine to produce a replica, applying an update to the replica that is scheduled to be made to the virtual machine, in parallel with the applying, updating one of the virtual machine and the replica so that a state of the virtual machine matches a state of the replica, and continuing execution of the application on one of the virtual machine and the replica.