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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2022
Exotanium, Inc., Ithaca, NY (US);
Zhiming Shen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hakim Weatherspoon, Ithaca, NY (US);
Robbert Van Renesse, Ithaca, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for instantiating and transparently migrating executing containerized processes includes receiving, by a container engine executing on a first machine, an instruction to instantiate a container image on the first machine, the container image including at least one process without including an operating system kernel. The container engine transmits, to a modified container runtime process, the instruction to instantiate the container image on the first machine. The modified container runtime process generates, on the first machine, a shim process representing the instantiated container image. The shim process forwards the instruction to an agent on a second machine. The agent directs instantiation of the container image, which includes providing, to the containerized process, at least one instruction for communicating with an operating system kernel of the second machine. A scheduler component on the first machine determines to migrate the containerized process to a third machine and directs the migration.