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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2021
Applicant:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
Michael Tsirkin, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes determining to migrate a guest VM from a source host to a destination host and, in response to determining to migrate the guest VM, determining that a page of the guest VM matches a page of a VM image of a plurality of VM images in a VM library associated with the source host. The method further includes forwarding an identifier of the page of the VM image to the destination host, the destination host to retrieve, in view of the identifier, the page of the VM image from a second VM library associated with the destination host to instantiate the guest VM at the destination host.