Patent ID: 8131986

Claim:
A method comprising: storing predetermined data of one or more application programs from a guest operating system (GOS) in memory accessible by a host operating system (HOS) via a file system of the HOS and accessible by a BIOS, wherein the HOS and GOS are operational, and wherein the HOS and GOS are capable of communication with one another; storing a redundant copy of the stored predetermined data by the HOS at a predetermined area of available memory; updating the redundant copy when changes to the stored predetermined data of one or more application programs from the GOS occurs; initiating by the HOS accessing the memory prior to the GOS and HOS being operational, in a subsequent boot sequence, a computing environment having the GOS and HOS; and initializing the redundant copy of the stored predetermined data in memory by providing the stored predetermined data in the memory accessible by the HOS via the file system of the HOS, thereby completing the boot sequence of the computing environment.