Patent ID: 9612859
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for comparing states of a virtual machine, the method comprising: presenting a plurality of selectable states of a virtual machine within a snapshot viewer, the plurality of selectable states comprising a current state of a virtual machine, a first snapshot of a first previous state of the virtual machine and a second snapshot of a second previous state of the virtual machine; responsive to the selection of the first snapshot and the second snapshot: responsive to deploying the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine, collecting information for use from the first virtual machine in the first console and the second virtual machine in the second console for use in comparing the first previous state to the second previous state, the information comprising actively running processes of the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine; and presenting a comparison tool for comparing the information between the first previous state and the second previous state of the virtual machine, wherein the comparison tool presents the actively running processes for the first previous state and the second previous state within a dialog box.