公开(公告)号：GB2507978A

公开(公告)日：2014-05-21

申请号：GB201220537

申请日：2012-11-15

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BOLTE DIRK ,  STROBEL MARTIN ,  KETCHAM DANIEL G ,  TROESTER MARTIN ,  POHL THOMAS

IPC: G06F9/455

Abstract: A computer implemented method for creating virtual machine templates (316) in a system (300) hosting one or more applications (325) to he executed on virtual machines (309) of the system (300) comprises the steps of automatically retrieving feed data (327) from a server (303) which may be an RSS server providing information on an application of the one or more applications (325); evaluating the content of the feed data (327) and determining data indicative of an update in the application. In response to a determination that the data is indicative of the update in the application descriptive data of the application is extracted from the feed data (327), and installation data for installing the application in the system (300) is determined. A plurality of virtual machine skeletons (317) are then provided, wherein a skeleton defines the hardware and software configuration data of a virtual machine of the virtual machines (309) from which a set of skeletons (317) indicative of at least part of the descriptive data are selected and for virtual machine skeleton of the set a virtual machine template (316) using the descriptive data, the installation data and the virtual machine skeleton.