Patent ID: 8776053
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for reconfiguring a virtual server image suitable for cloud deployment, comprising: a plurality of computers executing within a cloud, each computer including a processor and one or a plurality of hypervisors provided thereon, including a first computer having a first hypervisor, and a second computer having a second hypervisor, wherein the first hypervisor and the second hypervisor are of different type requiring a different bootstrap configuration; the virtual server image, which can be executed on the one or the plurality of hypervisors, and which provides a virtual machine environment for a software application, wherein the virtual server image contains a virtual server image updater used to reconfigure contents of the virtual server image from an original content, where the original content includes a bootstrap configuration required by the first hypervisor, to a reconfigured content where the reconfigured content includes a bootstrap configuration required by the second hypervisor, which receives a virtual server image patch and uses information in the virtual server image patch to reconfigure the contents of the virtual server image from the original content where the original content includes a first configuration of bootable and non-bootable parts, to the reconfigured content where the reconfigured content includes a second configuration of bootable and non-bootable parts, to create a reconfigured virtual server image, including