Creating a virtual machine containing third party code

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11157296-B2
Application number	US-201213620779-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 15, 2012
Priority date	Oct 16, 2007
Publication date	Oct 26, 2021
Grant date	Oct 26, 2021

Abstract

A Virtual Machine (VM) is created utilizing a virtual Operating System (OS) disk and virtual application disks, each of which may be from disparate third party suppliers. One or more files in the virtual application disk are then linked to a specific file system location (node) in the virtual OS disk.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of creating a virtual machine (VM), comprising:
receiving an application logical disk;
receiving an operating system (O/S) logical disk; and
generating a VM profile using the application logical disk and the O/S logical disk, wherein
the application logical disk includes an agent configured to create links between the application logical disk and another logical disk,
the application logical disk is separate from the O/S logical disk, and
the VM profile includes:
the application logical disk, and
a mapping of directory nodes within the application logical disk to directory nodes within the O/S logical disk.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein
the VM, as a single virtual image, is created using the O/S logical disk generated by a first organization and the application logical disk generated by a second organization different than the first organization.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising
assembling the virtual machine using the O/S logical disk and the application logical disk.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein
the application logical disk is separately maintainable.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein
the another logical disk includes a second application logical disk.

6. A computer hardware system configured to create a virtual machine (VM), comprising:
at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to initiate and/or perform:
receiving an application logical disk;
receiving an operating system (O/S) logical disk; and
generating a VM profile using the application logical disk and the O/S logical disk, wherein

the application logical disk includes an agent configured to create links between the application logical disk and another logical disk,
the application logical disk is separate from the O/S logical disk, and
the VM profile includes:
the application logical disk, and
a mapping of directory nodes within the application logical disk to directory nodes within the O/S logical disk.

7. The computer hardware system of claim 6 , wherein
the VM, as a single virtual image, is created using the O/S logical disk generated by a first organization and the application logical disk generated by a second organization different than the first organization.

8. The computer hardware system of claim 6 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to initiate and/or perform
assembling the virtual machine using the O/S logical disk and the application logical disk.

9. The computer hardware system of claim 6 , wherein
the application logical disk is separately maintainable.

10. The computer hardware system of claim 6 , wherein
the another logical disk includes a second application logical disk.

11. A computer program product, comprising:
a computer usable storage device having stored therein computer usable program code for creating a virtual machine (VM), the computer usable program code, which when executed by a computer hardware system, causes the computer hardware system to perform:
receiving an application logical disk;
receiving an operating system (O/S) logical disk; and
generating a VM profile using the application logical disk and the O/S logical disk, wherein

the application logical disk includes an agent configured to create links between the application logical disk and another logical disk,
the application logical disk is separate from the O/S logical disk,
the VM profile includes:
the application logical disk, and
a mapping of directory nodes within the application logical disk to directory nodes within the O/S logical disk, and

the computer usable storage device is not a transitory, propagating signal per se.

12. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein
the VM, as a single virtual image, is created using the O/S logical disk generated by a first organization and the application logical disk generated by a second organization different than the first organization.

13. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer usable product code further causes the computer hardware system to perform assembling the virtual machine using the O/S logical disk and the application logical disk.

14. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein
the application logical disk is separately maintainable.

15. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein
the another logical disk includes a second application logical disk.

Assignees

• Doyle Ronald P
• Schmidt Stephen J
• Wang Qingbo
• Willenborg Ruth E
• IBM

Inventors

• Doyle Ronald P
• Schmidt Stephen J
• Wang Qingbo
• Willenborg Ruth E

Classifications

• G06F3/0664

  at device level, e.g. emulation of a storage device or system · CPC title

• G06F3/0665

  at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes · CPC title

• G06F2009/45562

  Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F9/455 Primary

  Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines · CPC title