System and method for adapting a system configuration of a first computer system for hosting on a second computer system
First Claim
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for execution by at least one processor of a node of a server hosting environment comprising a plurality of nodes, each node for using one or more hypervisors in order to host a plurality of configurations of a plurality of computer systems, the computer program comprising:
- a set of instructions for receiving a first configuration of a computer system, the first configuration comprising an operating system that uses a source kernel that interfaces directly with hardware of the computer system;
a set of instructions for automatically identifying a kernel that interfaces with virtual hardware provided by a particular hypervisor of the node;
a set of instructions for automatically modifying the operating system to be compatible with the identified kernel when the identified kernel is not compatible with the operating system; and
a set of instructions for installing on the node a second configuration comprising the operating system modified to use the identified kernel for interfacing with the virtual hardware provided by the particular hypervisor.
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Abstract
Some embodiments provide a method for a server hosting environment having several nodes. Each node is for using one or more hypervisors in order to host several configurations of several computer systems. The method receives a first configuration of a computer system. The first configuration includes an operating system that directly accesses hardware of the computer system. The method generates a second configuration that is based on the first configuration. The second configuration includes the first configuration modified to be operable on a particular hypervisor of a particular node in the several nodes. The method installs the second configuration on the particular node in order to allow the particular node to operate on the second configuration in conjunction with the particular hypervisor. The second configuration accesses a set of virtual hardware provided by the particular hypervisor.
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1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for execution by at least one processor of a node of a server hosting environment comprising a plurality of nodes, each node for using one or more hypervisors in order to host a plurality of configurations of a plurality of computer systems, the computer program comprising:
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a set of instructions for receiving a first configuration of a computer system, the first configuration comprising an operating system that uses a source kernel that interfaces directly with hardware of the computer system; a set of instructions for automatically identifying a kernel that interfaces with virtual hardware provided by a particular hypervisor of the node; a set of instructions for automatically modifying the operating system to be compatible with the identified kernel when the identified kernel is not compatible with the operating system; and a set of instructions for installing on the node a second configuration comprising the operating system modified to use the identified kernel for interfacing with the virtual hardware provided by the particular hypervisor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. For a server hosting environment comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein a particular node comprises a hypervisor for hosting one or more computer system configurations, a method comprising:
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receiving a configuration comprising a kernel, an operating system, and a set of device drivers, the configuration for directly accessing hardware of a computer system; when the kernel is not compatible with virtual hardware provided by the hypervisor of the particular node, retrieving information for a compatible destination kernel from a kernel library storing different kernels for interfacing with different hardware on different platforms; when one or more of the device drivers is not compatible with the destination kernel or a virtual hardware device of the hypervisor corresponding to the device driver, retrieving, for each incompatible device driver, information for a compatible destination device driver from a driver library storing different device drivers for interfacing with different kernels and different hardware on different platforms; when the operating system is not compatible with the destination kernel, retrieving information for a compatible operating system from an operating system library storing different operating systems for interfacing with different kernels that access different hardware on different platforms; and adapting the configuration with the retrieved information in order for the adapted configuration to be operable on the hypervisor of the particular node for hosting the configuration within the server hosting environment. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. For a server hosting environment comprising a plurality of nodes, each node for using one or more hypervisors in order to host a plurality of configurations of a plurality of computer systems, a method comprising:
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receiving a first configuration of a computer system, the first configuration comprising an operating system that directly accesses hardware of the computer system with a set of device drivers compatible with the operating system, each device driver corresponding to a hardware device of the computer system; for a particular destination node in the plurality of nodes, automatically identifying a virtual hardware device provided by a particular hypervisor that does not correspond to any device driver in the set of device drivers of the first configuration; automatically replacing a device driver in the set of device drivers with a compatible device driver that corresponds to the virtual hardware device, the replaced device driver incompatible with the virtual hardware device; and installing on the particular destination node a second configuration comprising the operating system and the compatible device driver in order to allow the second configuration to operate on the particular destination node using the compatible device driver to access the virtual hardware device provided by the particular hypervisor. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method comprising:
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remotely accessing a computer system; from the computer system, extracting a configuration comprising an operating system and a set of device drivers that directly access a first set of physical hardware of the computer system; generating a first configuration package comprising the operating system and the set of device drivers of the configuration; and providing the first configuration package to an adaptation engine that (1) creates a second configuration package that is a modified version of the first configuration package with different device drivers for accessing a set of virtual hardware corresponding to a second set of physical hardware of a node of a hosting environment that comprises a plurality of nodes for hosting a plurality of configurations, and (2) supplies the second configuration package to the node in order to allow the node to host the configuration. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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