公开(公告)号：US20220229644A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-21

申请号：US17150606

申请日：2021-01-15

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Lingyuan HE ,  Mukund GUNTI ,  Ashish KAILA ,  Aravinda HARYADI

IPC: G06F8/61 ,  G06F8/71 ,  G06F21/57 ,  G06F11/10

Abstract: An example method of managing a lifecycle of virtualization software in a host is described. The method includes: obtaining, by an initiator in a current version of the virtualization software, a software installation bundle (SIB) from an image repository for a target version of the virtualization software, the SIB including a patcher; verifying, by the initiator, authenticity of the SIB; mounting at least one payload of the SIB in a root filesystem of the virtualization software, and initiating, by the initiator, the patcher in the at least one payload as mounted to perform at least one check operation.