公开(公告)号：US09652273B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-16

申请号：US14505349

申请日：2014-10-02

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Scott Howard Davis ,  Aaron Sweemer ,  Clint Greenwood ,  Benjamin J. Corrie ,  George Hicken ,  Zhenhua Yang

IPC: G06F9/455 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F21/00 ,  G06F13/00

CPC classification number: G06F9/45545 ,  G06F9/45558 ,  G06F2009/45562 ,  G06F2009/45583

Abstract: A virtualized computing system supports the execution of a plurality of virtual machines, where each virtual machine supports the execution of applications therein. Each application executes within a container that isolates the application executing therein from other processes executing on the computing system. A hierarchy of virtual machine templates is created by instantiating a parent virtual machine template, the parent virtual machine template having a guest operating system and a container. An application to be run in a container is determined, and, in response, the parent virtual machine template is forked to create a child virtual machine template, where the child virtual machine template includes a replica of the container, and where the guest operating system of the parent virtual machine template overlaps in memory with a guest operating system of the child virtual machine template. The application is then installed in the replica of the container.