Patent ID: 8464250

Claim:
A system, comprising: a computing device comprising a processor and a memory, a virtual server resident on the memory and operating on the processor to host a number of virtual machines (VMs), the virtual server including at least one master VM having a base image stored on a non-transitory non-volatile computer-readable storage medium, the base image comprising an operating system; a Web server resident on the memory and operating on the processor to authenticate a user based upon a user credential in response to a request for online access to a new VM on the virtual server; a cloning module resident on the memory and operating on the processor, in communication with the Web server and the virtual server, to automatically clone a master VM to create a VM clone for the user on the virtual server responsive to the request, wherein the VM clone comprises a copy of the base image on the non-transitory non-volatile computer-readable storage medium, and wherein the cloning module is to create the VM clone by copying the base image and renaming the copied image according to unique information pertaining to the user, wherein the unique information comprises a passport unique identifier; and wherein the Web server comprises a common interface configured to provide access to the cloning module for creating the VM clone for the user and to provide access to the deployed VM clone of the user based upon the same user credential.