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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2006
Mic Bowman, Beaverton, OR (US);
Rob Knauerhase, Portland, OR (US);
Paul Brett, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Robert Adams, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Mic Bowman, Beaverton, OR (US);
Rob Knauerhase, Portland, OR (US);
Paul Brett, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Robert Adams, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses enable creation of a virtual machine (VM) clone initiated through application or service logic. The application requests generation of a VM clone from within the runtime execution of the application. The request is serviced by a VM generator, which identifies a state of the VM to clone and identifies hardware resources on which to create the VM clone. Based on a determination of what resources on which to generate the VM clone, the VM generator creates the VM clone on the determined resources, having the identified state. In one embodiment, a use case of resource copy or reference copy is selected for each resource. In one embodiment, the VM generator considers a number of factors in determining where to instantiate the VM clone. The parameters may include hints or preference parameters sent by the application and/or resource loading or performance.