Patent ID: 9495269
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of migrating a live instance of a virtual machine from a source computer system to a target computer system, wherein the live instance of the virtual machine is managed by a hypervisor, the method comprising: creating a consistent snap shot image of an operating system environment that is running the live instance of the virtual machine on the source computer system; creating a test virtual machine container based on an actual virtual machine container corresponding to the live instance of the virtual machine; generating, based on the snap shot image of the operating system environment, a test virtual machine in the test virtual machine container; testing the generated test virtual machine, wherein a migration of the live instance of the virtual machine is performed in response to a successful test of the test virtual machine; and inhibiting commencement of the migration in response to an unsuccessful test of the test virtual machine.