Patent ID: 8341648
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving data representative of user-defined criteria, the user-defined criteria defining an event that triggers initiation of at least one virtualization operation; utilizing the user-defined criteria to generate a virtualization heuristic that includes a set of one or more rules for controlling the at least one virtualization operation; implementing the virtualization heuristic within a virtualization engine configured to use the virtualization heuristic to monitor, at an operating system kernel level, for the event defined by the user-defined criteria and to automatically control the at least one virtualization operation; detecting, by the virtualization engine, an occurrence of the event defined by the user-defined criteria, wherein detection of the occurrence of the event triggers initiation of the at least one virtualization operation; and automatically performing the at least one virtualization operation in response to the detected event, including: