ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,949, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Library based virtual machine migration" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining to migrate a guest VM from a source host to a destination host and, in response to determining to migrate the guest VM, determining that a page of the guest VM matches a page of a VM image of a plurality of VM images in a VM library associated with the source host. The method further includes forwarding an identifier of the page of the VM image to the destination host, the destination host to retrieve, in view of t...