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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph S. Beda, III, Seattle, WA (US);
Craig I. McLuckie, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christopher L. Eck, Sammamish, WA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for maintaining virtual machine metadata. One of the methods includes initializing a first virtual machine (VM) on a first host machine using one or more elements of user-specified initialization metadata. Upon receiving a notification that the first VM has published one or more elements of VM-generated metadata, one or more elements of VM-generated metadata are obtained. A request is received for the one or more elements of VM-generated metadata, and the one or more elements of VM-generated metadata are provided in response to the request.