Patent ID: 9361147
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of guest customization, comprising: booting a virtual machine into a maintenance mode within a service operating system having customization agent to customize a main operating system, wherein the maintenance mode provides access to reconstituted file systems of the main operating system allowing contents of a hard disk to be altered without activating the main operating system or any applications present on the main operating system, executing the customization agent based on, in the reconstituted file system, a response file created by a response file creation module; implementing a number of customization commands via the customization agent including adding or removing files within the reconstituted file system; injecting main operating system or virtual machine agent startup scripts in the reconstituted file system to complete the customization once the virtual machine is rebooted into the main operating system.