Dynamic configuration of virtual appliances
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a data processing system;
a non-transitory, computer readable memory coupled to the data processing system; and
logic, stored on the computer-readable memory and executed on the data processing system, for;
instantiating a first virtual appliance and a second virtual appliance, both with a basic configuration, onto the data processing system,determining, in response to the instantiating, a value of a first environmental feature of a virtual data processing environment associated with the first virtual appliance;
correlating the first environmental feature with a second environmental feature defined in a descriptor deployed with the first virtual appliance to identify a first software program;
determining, in response to the instantiating, a value of a third environmental feature of a second virtual data processing environment associated with the second virtual appliance;
correlating the third environmental feature with the second environmental feature defined in a descriptor deployed with the second virtual appliance to identify a second software program, wherein the first and second software programs are different software programs;
downloading the first software program into the first virtual processing environment; and
downloading a second software program into the second virtual processing environment.
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Abstract
A solution is proposed for deploying a virtual appliance onto a data processing system. A corresponding method comprises instantiating the virtual appliance with a basic configuration onto the data processing system, determining a value of each one of to set of environmental features of a virtual data processing environment associated with the virtual appliance, and downloading a set of local software programs corresponding to the values of at least part of the environmental features onto the virtual appliance.
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a data processing system; a non-transitory, computer readable memory coupled to the data processing system; and logic, stored on the computer-readable memory and executed on the data processing system, for; instantiating a first virtual appliance and a second virtual appliance, both with a basic configuration, onto the data processing system, determining, in response to the instantiating, a value of a first environmental feature of a virtual data processing environment associated with the first virtual appliance; correlating the first environmental feature with a second environmental feature defined in a descriptor deployed with the first virtual appliance to identify a first software program; determining, in response to the instantiating, a value of a third environmental feature of a second virtual data processing environment associated with the second virtual appliance; correlating the third environmental feature with the second environmental feature defined in a descriptor deployed with the second virtual appliance to identify a second software program, wherein the first and second software programs are different software programs; downloading the first software program into the first virtual processing environment; and downloading a second software program into the second virtual processing environment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A computer programming product, comprising:
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a non-transitory, computer readable memory; and logic, stored on the non-transitory, computer readable memory for execution on a processor, for; instantiating a first virtual appliance and a second virtual appliance, both with a basic configuration, onto the data processing system, determining, in response to the instantiating, a value of a first environmental feature of a virtual data processing environment associated with the first virtual appliance; correlating the first environmental feature with a second environmental feature defined in a descriptor deployed with the first virtual appliance to identify a first software program; determining, in response to the instantiating, a value of a third environmental feature of a second virtual data processing environment associated with the second virtual appliance; correlating the third environmental feature with the second environmental feature defined in a descriptor deployed with the second virtual appliance to identify a second software program, wherein the first and second software programs are different software programs; downloading the first software program into the first virtual processing environment; and downloading a second software program into the second virtual processing environment. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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