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Abstract

A plurality of devices self-assemble their respective resources into a pool for hosting one or more virtual machines (VMs). An inverse virtual machine architecture enables a pool of resources to be assembled for hosting one or more VMs independent of an application-level control program, such as a host OS and/or other application-level program, executing on the host system. In certain embodiments, the plurality of independent physical resources are operable to autonomously join together in forming the pool of resources for VM(s). In certain embodiments, each device comprises VM core logic for self-assembling the devices into the resource pool. The VM core logic may be implemented at a BIOS level of the devices, wherein an operating system is not required to be launched on any of the devices that self-assemble into the resource pool for hosting the VM(s).

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