Patent ID: 8914403
Filing Date: 2014-12-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for managing a virtual machine image, the method comprising: receiving a request to change a package configuration of a machine, the request including an image action; identifying the image action as a Mirage Image Format (MIF); processing the image action received in the request, wherein the processing the image action received includes: determining whether each image action in the request has been processed; processing a second image action responsive to determining that each image action has not been processed; in response to determining that the compared opened image action inputs do not match the inputs associated with action instances in the database, generating a new image difference data associated with the image action different from the previously generated image difference data without selection from a user; performing the image action on the image to transform the image into a resultant image responsive to determining that the compared opened image action inputs do not match the inputs associated with action instances in the database; determining a difference between the image and the resultant image; and generating image difference data including the difference between the image and the resultant image.