TEMPLATE VIRTUAL MACHINES

摘要

There is provided a method of providing a template virtual machine. An exemplary method comprises creating a template virtual machine comprising an image of an operating system and software running on the operating system. The template virtual machine does not include machine-specific identifiers. The template virtual machine is booted into a virtual machine environment. Subsequently, machine-specific identifiers for the template virtual machine are updated. The template virtual machine may then be booted with machine-specific identifiers into a service instance to perform a function determined by the software running on the operating system such that uniform code pages representing the operating system and software running on the operating system are shared among virtual machines in the virtual machine environment.