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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph S. Beda, III, Seattle, WA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing images of virtual machine virtual disks. One of the methods includes receiving a request from a first user to save a first virtual machine (VM) disk image, wherein the first VM disk image is an image of a virtual disk of a first VM instance and captures an application and operating system configuration of the first VM instance; in response to the request, providing data identifying a plurality of image tracks to the first user, wherein each image track is a collection of VM disk images; receiving data from the first user identifying a first image track of the plurality of image tracks; and adding the first VM disk image to the first image track, comprising associating data identifying the first VM disk image with data identifying the first image track.