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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2010
Eric K. Butler, San Jose, CA (US);
Mihail Corneliu Constantinescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Reshu Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prasenjit Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Aameek Singh, University Place, WA (US);
Eric K. Butler, San Jose, CA (US);
Mihail Corneliu Constantinescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Reshu Jain, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prasenjit Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Aameek Singh, University Place, WA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention are directed to streaming virtual machine boot services over a network. An aspect of the invention includes booting a first virtual machine and recording data and metadata from a virtual machine boot image into a virtual machine boot file. The data and metadata are accessed in the process of booting the first virtual machine. The virtual machine boot image has setup information of the virtual machine type of the first virtual machine. The virtual machine boot file is configured for the virtual machine type of the first virtual machine. A descriptor is added to metadata of the virtual machine boot image, which references a location of the virtual machine boot file for the virtual machine type of the first virtual machine. When subsequently booting a second virtual machine of the same type of virtual machine as the first virtual machine, data are streamed from the virtual machine boot file to a virtual machine monitor of a second virtual machine without the need to stream data from the virtual machine boot image.