SYSTEM AND METHOD TO COMMIT CONTAINER CHANGES ON A VM-BASED CONTAINER

    公开(公告)号:US20220012079A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-13

    申请号:US16986899

    申请日:2020-08-06

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments for committing changes of an image of a virtual machine-based container running on a host computer system. A starting image for a container is obtained from a guest starting folder, and while the container runs the starting image changes to the image made by the running container are captured in a guest folder that is union mounted with the guest starting folder. Another union folder, which is the union of a new host folder and the starting folder, contains the changed image which can be used for the container or transferred to a different container.

    PEER-TO-PEER LICENSE ENFORCEMENT IN VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20200034172A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-30

    申请号:US16045764

    申请日:2018-07-26

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: An example method is provided for a first host running a client software to provision a virtual machine on the first host in a virtualized computing environment including one or more hosts. The method may include generating a license key message, transmitting the license key message to a second host via a peer-to-peer (P2P) network including the first host and the second host, receiving a determination of the second host whether the virtual machine can be provisioned on the first host via the P2P network, and deciding whether to provision the virtual machine on the first host based on the determination. Some example license key messages may include a license key and a seat number and a sharable level indicator associated with the license key.

    VIRTUAL COMPUTING INSTANCE BASED SYSTEM TO SUPPORT UNION MOUNT ON A PLATFORM

    公开(公告)号:US20220222223A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-14

    申请号:US17168484

    申请日:2021-02-05

    Applicant: VMware, Inc.

    Abstract: Described herein are a system and method for combining folders in a host operating system lacking a facility for performing the combining. A helper virtual machine (VM) is formed and runs a guest operating system with a facility for combining folders such as a union mount facility. The host operating system also runs a host/guest file-sharing server to share folders instead of copying them. The file-sharing server allows the VM to access host folders, perform the combination using the union mount facility, and then allows the host operating system to access the results as a shared union mount folder in the host. Any changes to the shared union mount folder in the host are automatically processed by the union mount facility in the VM and then reflected to a folder in the host operating system.

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