METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A VIRTUAL MACHINE BASED ON TEMPLATES

摘要

The invention relates to a method and a system for providing a virtual machine according to a specification of a user for use on a hypervisor, which allow an automatic selection of a suitable virtual machine template for providing a virtual machine in a short time. A virtual machine configurator provides a user interface to specifiy the software elements of various software hierarchy levels to be included in the virtual machine. The virtual machine configurator applies a scoring algorithm based on scores assigned to software elements according to their software hierarchy levels to calculate a score value for all virtual machine templates provided in a library, selects from the library the virtual machine template having the highest score value, and delivers the selected virtual machine template as a virtual machine to the hypervisor.