| 摘要 |
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for describing virtual machine dependencies. In particular, data objects, such as virtual hard drives, associated with virtual machines may be identified and/or examined to identify data structures, such as configuration files, comprising configuration data. The configuration data may be analyzed to determine dependency relationships between virtual machines to describe virtual machine dependencies. Identifying virtual machine dependencies, among other things, allows virtual machines that are no longer used to be repurposed, deleted, reset, etc. with little to no adverse effect on other virtual machines. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method for describing a virtual machine dependency of a first virtual machine depending upon a second virtual machine, comprising:
identifying a data object associated with a first virtual machine, the data object comprising at least one of a master boot record of a guest file system of the first virtual machine, a partition table of the guest file system, or a master file table of the guest file system; examining the data object to identify a data structure comprising configuration data; and analyzing the configuration data to determine a dependency relationship between the first virtual machine and a second virtual machine to describe a virtual machine dependency, the analyzing comprising searching the configuration data for a reference to the second virtual machine. |
