Patent ID: 8214878

Claim:
A machine implemented method for providing policy control of a target virtual environment when porting at least one guest from a source virtual environment, the method comprising the steps of: analyzing, by a computer, configuration information concerning the at least one guest; analyzing, by the computer, configuration information concerning the source virtual environment; automatically creating, by the computer, at least one configuration specification based on at least the analysis of both the at least one guest and the source virtual environment, at a source virtual environment; further basing, by the computer, the at least one configuration specification on at least one additional local directive of the at least one guest; determining, by the computer, that the target virtual environment is not compliant with the at least one configuration specification; modifying, by the computer, the target virtual environment so as to be compliant with the at least one configuration specification; copying, by the computer, the guest to the target virtual environment; and running, by the computer, the copied guest in the target virtual environment.