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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2019
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method, comprising obtaining configuration information for a virtual machine (VM) that is to be imported from a source platform to a target platform, creating an overlay image of a virtual disk image of the VM on an external disk, creating a second overlay image of the virtual disk image on a temporary disk of the target platform, the temporary disk comprising an active layer of the virtual disk image, and the external disk comprising a backing file of the temporary disk, starting a second VM on the target platform in view of the configuration information and copying, by a processing device, the temporary disk and the external disk to a target disk on the target platform.