Inventors:
James B. Evans - Orinda CA, US
Jonathan S. Fan - Oakland CA, US
Dennis S. Goodrow - Santa Rosa CA, US
Benjamin J. Kus - Alameda CA, US
Peter B. Loer - Oakland CA, US
Jason E. Mealins - San Francisco CA, US
Gregory M. Toto - Piedmont CA, US
Amrit T. Williams - Alamo CA, US
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY
International Classification:
G06F 9/455, G06F 21/00
Abstract:
A client hypervisor comprises a virtual agent that runs outside of a system OS and that allows device management independent of the OS and user. The virtual agent is tied to a device and not a specific instance of the OS. Such client hypervisors expose new functionality to ease managing systems. Some of these capabilities come from the persistence and privileges outside the OS. In some embodiments of the invention, this new management functionality is exposed to allow device management via new virtualization concepts, such as multiple VMs per system, VM replacement, snapshot/rollback, etc.