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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2007
Monica Sin-ling Lam, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew D. Berkheimer, Boston, MA (US);
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Mountain View, CA (US);
John C. Whaley, San Mateo, CA (US);
Ramesh U. V. Chandra, Belmont, CA (US);
Michael K. Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Won-suk Chun, Belmont, CA (US);
Kelvin Kam-suen Yue, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Monica Sin-Ling Lam, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew D. Berkheimer, Boston, MA (US);
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Mountain View, CA (US);
John C. Whaley, San Mateo, CA (US);
Ramesh U. V. Chandra, Belmont, CA (US);
Michael K. Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Won-Suk Chun, Belmont, CA (US);
Kelvin Kam-Suen Yue, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
moka5, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for publishing, subscribing to, or playing live appliances. A live appliance includes a current virtual machine image. In publishing, a proxy file of a live appliance file type is provided to the publisher. The type is mapped to a live appliance player; so that when a proxy file is opened, the current virtual machine image is run. The player automatically binds a writeable file system external to the virtual machine image to the image to provide file storage that is accessible from within the virtual machine image and from a host operating system. The player also creates a subscription to the live appliance on the host computer if one does not exist when the proxy file is run. With the subscription, the player runs the then-current virtual machine image whenever the live appliance is run.