Endpoint-Hosted Hypervisor Management
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1. An apparatus for endpoint-hosted hypervisor management, comprising;
- a hypervisor-resident, policy-based, virtual management agent running in a privileged context and configured to manage at least one host OS from outside said OS, said host OS comprising a virtual machine (VM) running on an underlying hardware-based device.
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Abstract
A client hypervisor comprises a virtual agent that runs outside of a system OS and that allows device management independent of the OS and user. The virtual agent is tied to a device and not a specific instance of the OS. Such client hypervisors expose new functionality to ease managing systems. Some of these capabilities come from the persistence and privileges outside the OS. In some embodiments of the invention, this new management functionality is exposed to allow device management via new virtualization concepts, such as multiple VMs per system, VM replacement, snapshot/rollback, etc.
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23 Claims
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1. An apparatus for endpoint-hosted hypervisor management, comprising;
a hypervisor-resident, policy-based, virtual management agent running in a privileged context and configured to manage at least one host OS from outside said OS, said host OS comprising a virtual machine (VM) running on an underlying hardware-based device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer implemented method for endpoint-hosted hypervisor management, comprising the steps of;
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providing a hypervisor-resident, policy-based, virtual management agent; running said virtual management agent in a privileged context; and configuring said virtual management agent to manage at least one host OS from outside said OS, wherein said host OS comprises a virtual machine (VM) running on an underlying hardware-based device. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23)
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