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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2011
Robert Fries, Kirkland, WA (US);
Galen Hunt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Shobana Balakrishnan, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Fries, Kirkland, WA (US);
Galen Hunt, Bellevue, WA (US);
Shobana Balakrishnan, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described are techniques for capturing and analyzing snapshots of virtual machines. One or more computers may automatically obtain snapshots of virtual machines as they are executing to form a pool of virtual machine snapshots. The virtual machine snapshots are then read to obtain a set of features properties of the virtual machine snapshots, including information about a running guest operating system, software installed on the virtual machine, metadata about the virtual machine itself, and others. The features or properties are analyzed, in one embodiment using a machine learning algorithm, to automatically compute and store information about the virtual machines.