Managed boot in a cloud system

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8874888
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13344450

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Techniques and systems for managed boot are described. A described technique includes creating, at a server system, a boot image based on one or more user-specified parameters associated with virtual machine booting, providing a first virtual drive that includes the boot image, booting a virtual machine using the boot image on the first virtual drive, and providing a second virtual drive to the virtual machine, where the virtual machine mounts the second virtual drive as a root file system.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Anderson, Evan K Seattle, US 20 499
Beda,, III Joseph S Seattle, US 25 928
Berreth, Frank Irvine, US 7 121
Earhart,, III Robert H Seattle, US 2 32
McWherter, David T Seattle, US 2 26
Mehat, Sanjeet Singh Seattle, US 5 62
Thornton, Andrew Seattle, US 28 639

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