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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131577 | PROVIDING A VIRTUAL MACHINE A software element database stores software element definitions according to a software element hierarchy. A score is assigned to at least one of the software element based at least in part upon the software element's hierarchy level. Further, virtual machine templates ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131574 | Virtual machine data structures corresponding to nested virtualization levels A system includes a processor providing hardware virtualization, and a memory to store a first virtual machine data structure corresponding to a first nested virtualization level and a second virtual machine data structure corresponding to a second nested virtualization... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131572 | Method for Specification of Environment Required for Crowdsourcing Tasks Embodiments of the invention are associated with crowdsourcing, wherein a computing environment comprising all of the tools and other resources required to perform a specified task can be made available to all prospective participants, as a virtual machine image. One em... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131575 | DEVICE EMULATION IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Systems and methods for optimizing operation of a physical device in a virtualized computing environment are provided. The method comprises monitoring instructions issued by an application running on a virtual machine's (VM) operating system, wherein the VM is hosted by... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131480 | MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINE SNAPSHOTS A virtual machine snapshot mechanism takes snapshots of virtual machines on a computer system, generates relationships between a snapshot and resources on the computer system, and provides a graphical display of one or more snapshots that allow visually determining whic... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131578 | Optimization of Virtual Appliance Deployment In an embodiment for deploying a new virtual appliance (225) on a data processing center (100) structure information of the new virtual appliance is determined (509-521). The structure information of the new virtual appliance includes an indi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131225 | DATA CENTER NETWORK SYSTEM AND PACKET FORWARDING METHOD THEREOF A data center network system and a packet forwarding method are provided. The data center network includes a management server and a plurality of machines containing physical machines and virtual machines. The management server configures a logical media access control ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131662 | Virtual local area networks in a virtual machine environment In one embodiment, a method includes identifying virtual machines operating at a network device and virtual local area networks associated with the virtual machines, creating an allowed list of virtual local area networks at the network device based on the virtual machi... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131576 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MIGRATION METHOD OF VIRTUAL COMPUTER When LPAR in a physical computer is migrated to LPAR in another in the state that OS operates, OS in LPAR can access disk which the OS has accessed before migration just after migration. FC-HBA's connected to the physical computers of the source and destination are cons... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131571 | PERFORMANCE IN A NESTED VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT Methods and systems for improving performance in a virtualization environment. The method comprising: detecting, by a first software, a first set of features supported by a hardware device, wherein the first software runs on the hardware device; detecting a second set o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131573 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUS TO PRIORITIZE COMPUTING DEVICES FOR VIRTUALIZATION In one embodiment, a virtualization analysis tool defines a classification weight value for each physical computing device from a plurality of physical computing devices, defines an effective utilization value for that physical computing device, and associates a virtual... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131579 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEPLOYING AT LEAST ONE VIRTUAL NETWORK ON THE FLY AND ON DEMAND The invention relates to a method for generating, on the fly and on demand, at least one virtual network (402, 404, 406), adapted for a specific use, on a physical network (200), referred to as an infrastructure network, including physical nodes (204, 2... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110570 | STATEFUL APPLICATIONS OPERATING IN A STATELESS CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT A cloud computing environment may use a virtualization layer within a stateless cloud computing process to capture, store, and retrieve state information generated by a stateful application executing within the process. The virtualization layer may monitor various state... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110572 | Dynamic Allocation and Assignment of Virtual Environment A mechanism for enabling enterprise data centers to allocate portions of their infrastructure and assign them to specific line of business unit IT organizations. The mechanism allows the business unit to dynamically and rapidly provision virtual infrastructure as needed... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110573 | TRANSFERRING OBJECTS BETWEEN VIRTUAL MACHINES Object calls for objects not available on a local virtual machine are fulfilled by requesting the object itself from a remote virtual machine and reconstructing a local instance of the requested object on the local virtual machine. The local instance is reconstructed us... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110576 | RESOURCE SHARING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF A resource sharing system for a plurality of user devices accessing at least one resource at the same time is provided. The system comprises a plurality of virtual machines and a connection broker. The virtual machines are established on at least one computer, wherein e... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110578 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD A data processing system includes a hardware platform, a virtualization platform, a physical machine, and at least two virtual machines. The virtual machines run on the virtualization platform. The physical machine is configured to bear the virtualization platform. The ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110574 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO CLONE A VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTANCE In one embodiment, an initialization script including instructions to define a value of a parameter at a cloned virtual machine instance is generated and stored at a virtual disk of a source virtual machine instance. The value of the parameter at the cloned virtual mach... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110571 | Inherited Product Activation for Virtual Machines Methods and systems are disclosed in which inherited activation opens a secure communication path from the host operating system (OS) to the guest (virtual machine) OS. The license state of the software on the host is passed through this channel, and software installed ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110577 | CONTROLLING MEMORY CONDITIONS IN A VIRTUAL MACHINE A method of managing host physical memory using a balloon application executing within a guest virtual machine (GVM) running on a host platform is described. The balloon application receives allocation parameters from an entity outside the GVM, the allocation parameters... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110575 | SECURE PARTITIONING WITH SHARED INPUT/OUTPUT A soft partitioning system for allowing multiple virtual system environments to execute on a single platform may include I/O service partitions (IOSPs). The IOSPs operating in a separate virtual memory space on the platform and service disk and network requests from mul... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084381 | Virtual Desktop Configuration And Operation Techniques Techniques for configuring and operating a virtual desktop session are disclosed herein. In an exemplary embodiment, an inter-partition communication channel can be established between a virtualization platform and a virtual machine. The inter-partition communication ch... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084487 | System and Method for Controlling the Input/Output of a Virtualized Network In accordance with an embodiment a method of running a virtual machine on a server includes controlling data path resources allocated to the virtual machine using a first supervisory process running on the server, controlling data path resources comprising controlling a... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084768 | Capturing Multi-Disk Virtual Machine Images Automatically A plurality of virtual disk images are established on a virtual machine. The virtual machine identifies corresponding network address translations for a plurality of disks, each having a corresponding plurality of data sets. The virtual machine installs the correspondin... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084774 | Techniques For Load Balancing GPU Enabled Virtual Machines Exemplary techniques for balancing 3D graphical processor unit use among virtual machines are herein disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a virtualization platform can load an instance of a graphics rendering module for a virtual machine; select a GPU for the graphics... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084778 | MANAGING EXECUTION OF MIXED WORKLOADS IN A SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-THREADED (SMT) ENABLED SYSTEM A kernel of a SMT enabled processor system facilitates construction of an exclusive set of processors to simulate an ST mode for handling the tasks of the ST workload, wherein the ST workload runs more efficiently on single threaded processors. The kernel schedules the ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084775 | Techniques for Streaming Virtual Machines from a Server to a Host Techniques for configuring a commodity server to host virtual hard disks are disclosed herein. In an exemplary embodiment, a virtual hard disk file can be split into a plurality of differencing VHD files and one or more of the files can be downloaded to a virtualization... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084776 | VIRTUAL MACHINE STAGE DETECTION A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for categorizing a virtual machine stage. A data processing system starts a virtual machine. It sets factor-stage ranges, wherein for each combination factor and stage, a corresponding range is present, ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084777 | Virtual Machine and/or Multi-Level Scheduling Support on Systems with Asymmetric Processor Cores Different processor cores in a computing device can support different features. In one or more embodiments, the features supported by each of multiple physical processor cores of a computing device are identified. A set of one or more features of the multiple physical p... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072910 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MANAGING A VIRTUAL DATA CENTER WITH EMBEDDED ROLES BASED ACCESS CONTROL Embodiments provide techniques for customers to easily, quickly and remotely manage their virtual data centers. Using, for example, a “single pane of glass” GUI view which shows all of the components (including e.g., machines (cpu and RAM), network services (load ba... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072911 | TRACE ASSISTED PREFETCHING OF VIRTUAL MACHINES IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM The disclosed implementations are related to trace-assisted prefetching of a virtual machine from a network resource to improve interactive performance of the virtual machine on a host device. Trace patterns can be automatically uploaded to a network resource, which agg... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AFFINITY DISPATCHING FOR TASK MANAGEMENT IN AN EMULATED MULTIPROCESSOR ENVIRONMENT The disclosure relates generally to managing assignment of tasks among instruction processors (IPs) within a computer system having multiple IPs, and more particularly to binding emulated IPs with a host system's IPs (e.g., processor cores) for facilitating control over... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072909 | AUTOMATED ORCHESTRATION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS Changes to a virtual system, such as a set of virtual machines in a data center, may be automatically synchronized with the corresponding physical system. In one implementation, an application may receive information regarding changes made to a virtual system. The appli... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069032 | Optimizing Virtual Graphics Processing Unit Utilization Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for optimizing virtual graphics processing unit utilization. Embodiments include assigning a computing intensity level to each virtual machine of a plurality of virtual machines; assigning a priority level to ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072571 | VALIDATING THE RESILIENCY OF NETWORKED APPLICATIONS Techniques are disclosed for validating the resiliency of a networked application made available using a collection of interacting servers. In one embodiment, a network monitoring application observes each running server (or application) and at unspecified intervals, pi... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072685 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BACKUP OF VIRTUAL MACHINE DATA Embodiments of the invention provide backup of virtual machine data and preferably simplify the backup system, especially in the virtual machine environment that uses an external storage subsystem. A system includes a storage system coupled via a network to a server and... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072619 | Memory Overcommit by Using an Emulated IOMMU in a Computer System with a Host IOMMU A method and system for managing direct memory access (DMA) in a computer system that hosts virtual machines and allows memory overcommit. The computer receives an indication that a bus address is to be used by a device to perform DMA to a buffer. In response to the ind... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072907 | PROXY TOOL FOR GUEST MACHINE RELOCATION A system tool, method and program product for relocating an original guest from a first host to a second host in a z/VM environment. A method is disclosed that includes: bringing the original guest down at the first host, wherein the original guest includes a predetermi... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072762 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY MANAGING REQUESTS FOR COMPUTING CAPACITY Embodiments of systems and methods are described for dynamically managing requests for computing capacity from a provider of computing resources. Illustratively, the computing resources may include program execution capabilities, data storage or management capabilities,... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072906 | Memory Overcommit by Using an Emulated IOMMU in a Computer System without a Host IOMMU A method and system for managing direct memory access (DMA) in a computer system without a host input/output memory management unit (IOMMU). The computer system hosts virtual machines and allows memory overcommit. The computer receives, from a guest operating system tha... | 03/22/2012 |
