Failing over a virtual machine

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2007-05-01

2007-05-01

An, Meng-Al T. (Department: 2195)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Virtual machine task or process management

C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10108882

ABSTRACT:
A first computer system may be configured to execute a first application in a first virtual machine. A second computer system may be coupled to the first computer system. In response to a failure, the first computer system is configured to failover the first virtual machine to the second computer system. A carrier medium comprises first instructions which, when executed, initiate a failover of a first virtual machine. An application executes on the first virtual machine. The failover occurs from a first computer system on which a failure occurs to a second computer system.

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