发明名称 Using a mobile device to transfer virtual machine between computers while preserving session
摘要 A VM loading module loads a virtual machine snapshot of a virtual machine from a first computing device to a mobile device. The virtual machine runs on the first computing device and the virtual machine snapshot includes a copy-on-write (“COW”) file and an image file of files from the virtual machine. A VM launch module launches the virtual machine on a second computing device, which reads the virtual machine snapshot from the mobile device and the second computing device records changes to the COW file stored on the second computing device while running the virtual machine. A session termination module terminates a session of execution of the virtual machine running on the second computing device and copies the COW file from the second computing device to the mobile device. The COW file includes changes to the virtual machine snapshot from the virtual machine on the second computing device.
申请公布号 US9563454(B2) 申请公布日期 2017.02.07
申请号 US201514613197 申请日期 2015.02.03
申请人 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION 发明人 Herrendoerfer Dirk
分类号 G06F9/455;H04L29/08;G06F17/30;H04L29/06 主分类号 G06F9/455
代理机构 Kunzler Law Group 代理人 Kunzler Law Group ;Bennett Steven L.
主权项 1. An apparatus comprising: a VM loading module that loads a virtual machine snapshot of a virtual machine from a first computing device to a mobile device, the virtual machine running on the first computing device, the virtual machine snapshot comprising a copy-on-write (“COW”) file an image file, and a hibernation file, the image file comprising files from the virtual machine, the hibernation file comprising one or more of virtual machine memory contents and processor and hardware state information of a session running on the first computing device; a VM launch module that launches the virtual machine on a second computing device, wherein the second computing device reads the virtual machine snapshot from the mobile device and wherein the second computing device records changes to a copy of the COW file stored on the second computing device while the second computing device runs the virtual machine, and wherein information from the hibernation file is used to restart, on the second computing device, the session that was running on the first computing device; a session termination module that terminates a session of execution of the virtual machine running on the second computing device and that copies the COW file from the second computing device to the mobile device at the termination of execution of the virtual machine on the second computing device by merging changes into an existing COW file on the mobile device, the COW file comprising changes to the virtual machine snapshot from execution of the virtual machine on the second computing device; a sync module that merges contents of the virtual machine into files accessible to the first computing device and available for execution on the first computing device outside the virtual machine running on the first computing device, the virtual machine started on the first computing device using information from the virtual machine snapshot received by the mobile device; andresets the COW file upon reaching a predefined a size of the COW file in response to the contents of the COW file being merged into files accessible to the first computing device outside the virtual machine, a VM creation module that creates a new virtual machine snapshot of the virtual machine with the reset COW file, wherein the mobile device comprises an operating system different than the operating system of the virtual machine, the operating system of the first computing device, and the operating system of the second computing device, wherein said modules comprise one or more of hardware circuits, programmable hardware devices and executable code, the executable code stored on one or more computer readable storage media, when said modules comprise executable code, further comprising one or more processors that execute the programmable code.
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