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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2004
Scott H. Robinson, Portland, OR (US);
Vijay Tewari, Portland, OR (US);
Robert C. Knauerhase, Portland, OR (US);
Scott H. Robinson, Portland, OR (US);
Vijay Tewari, Portland, OR (US);
Robert C. Knauerhase, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and system for transparently unifying virtual machines ('VMs') is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention enables a user to interact with various applications on a VM host while unaware of the VM structure on the VM host. The user may be presented with a unified desktop interface representing a composite and/or unified view of the VM host. Via this unified desktop interface, the user may perform all necessary commands and/or receive output. Invisible to the user, the unified desktop interface represents a unification console. The unification console may be an independent component (e.g., an enhanced VM) and/or a subset of a virtual machine manager ('VMM') component on the VM host. In either situation, the unification console may, alone and/or in conjunction with the VMM, route and/or redirect and/or transform and/or filter the user's commands to the appropriate applications and redirect and/or copy and/or transform and/or filter the output from the applications to be displayed in the unified desktop interface.