CREATING NEW VIRTUAL MACHINES BASED ON POST-BOOT VIRTUAL MACHINE SNAPSHOTS

摘要

Systems and methods for creating new virtual machines based on post-boot virtual machine snapshots. An example method may include: receiving a request to create a new virtual machine, identifying, in view of the request, a virtual machine snapshot, the virtual machine snapshot including one or more elements of an initialized virtual machine, determining an update efficiency metric with respect to the virtual machine snapshot, and in response to a determination that the update efficiency metric reflects that updating the virtual machine snapshot is relatively more efficient than creating a new virtual machine in lieu of the virtual machine snapshot, creating the new virtual machine in view of the virtual machine snapshot.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving a request to create a new virtual machine; identifying, in view of the request, a virtual machine snapshot, the virtual machine snapshot comprising one or more elements of an initialized virtual machine; determining an update efficiency metric with respect to the virtual machine snapshot; and in response to a determination that the update efficiency metric reflects that updating the virtual machine snapshot is relatively more efficient than creating a new virtual machine in lieu of the virtual machine snapshot, creating, with a processing device, the new virtual machine in view of the virtual machine snapshot.