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Reconfiguring virtual machines

  • US 10,496,424 B2
  • Filed: 03/30/2016
  • Issued: 12/03/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • identifying, in view of virtual machine configuration data of a virtual machine, a plurality of virtual hardware components supported by a guest operating system on the virtual machine;

    identifying, by a processing device of a virtual machine manager of a host controller, from the plurality of virtual hardware components, a set of supported virtual hardware components that were previously not used by the virtual machine;

    generating, by the processing device of the virtual machine manager of the host controller, a user interface comprising the set of supported virtual hardware components that are not used by the virtual machine;

    receiving, by the processing device via the user interface, a selection of at least one virtual hardware component from the set of supported virtual hardware components to be initialized on the virtual machine; and

    providing, by the virtual machine manager, an instruction to a hypervisor executing the virtual machine to cause the hypervisor to reconfigure the virtual machine by changing a virtual hardware component currently used by the virtual machine to the selected at least one virtual hardware component.

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