Patent ID: 9146769
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of generating virtual machines via a computer network, comprising: transmitting, by an orchestrator executing on a server via the computer network, an agent for installation on a source machine, wherein the agent is configured to generate a snapshot of the source machine; receiving, by the orchestrator from the agent installed on the source machine, a current state of a first filesystem of the source machine, wherein the first filesystem includes a first configuration; configuring, by the orchestrator on a hypervisor executing on a host machine, a second filesystem with a second configuration based on the first configuration; initiating, by the orchestrator on the hypervisor executing on the host machine, a transfer virtual machine using a default filesystem independent of the first configuration and the second configuration; instructing, by the orchestrator on the hypervisor executing on the host machine, the agent to directly transfer the snapshot of the source machine to the transfer virtual machine, wherein the transfer virtual machine is configured to write the second filesystem using the snapshot of the source machine; updating, by the orchestrator on the hypervisor executing on the host machine, the second filesystem written by the transfer virtual machine using the snapshot of the source machine to be operative to start a first operating system; and creating, by the orchestrator on the hypervisor executing on the host machine, a target virtual machine configured to launch the first operating system from the second filesystem, wherein the target virtual machine is different from the transfer virtual machine.