Patent ID: 8276137
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for creating a Virtual Machine containing third party code, the method comprising: configuring a Virtual Machine (VM) profile and VM file system for a Virtual Machine (VM), wherein the Virtual Machine (VM) is a software-created virtualized environment for executing software in a hardware-agnostic manner, and wherein the VM profile defines which Operating System (OS) is to be used by the VM, and wherein the VM file system defines a mapped relationship between virtual files in at least one virtual application disk and physical files in at least one physical disk; and linking a file in said at least one virtual application disk to a specific file system location in a virtual OS disk in the VM, wherein the VM comprises the virtual OS disk and said at least one virtual application disk, and wherein instructions in the file from said at least one virtual application disk are linked to and executed in conjunction with OS instructions located at the specific file system location in the virtual OS disk.