Open virtual appliance
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1. A packaging format for a virtual machine, comprising:
- an executable instruction set, including virtual machine specific information, for guiding the management of the virtual machine throughout the virtual machine'"'"'s life cycle.
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Abstract
An open virtual appliance is a transport mechanism allowing virtual appliances to be performed upon various virtual environments, even where the formatting of the virtual appliance and virtual environment are not similar. The open virtual appliance provides a common, flexible packaging format for virtual machines that guide their management throughout all stages of a virtual machines life cycle.
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1. A packaging format for a virtual machine, comprising:
an executable instruction set, including virtual machine specific information, for guiding the management of the virtual machine throughout the virtual machine'"'"'s life cycle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of formatting a virtual machine, comprising:
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providing a virtual machine; and associating the virtual machine with a packaging format, including virtual machine specific information, for guiding the management of the virtual machine throughout the virtual machine'"'"'s life cycle. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. An executable instruction set for a packaging format of a virtual machine, comprising:
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a first instruction providing a memory for the virtual machine; and a second instruction providing a location of a source file for the virtual machine. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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