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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsNaveen K. Kachroo, Martin Taillefer, Lonny Dean McMichael
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Mechanisms are disclosed for updating a virtual machine monitor (“VMM”). Facilities of a guest operating system running in a guest virtual machine managed by the VMM are leveraged to facilitate receiving an update package. The update package may contain updates for guest operating systems extensions in addition to a VMM update. An updater process, running in a guest operating system, extracts the VMM update and transfers it down to the VMM. Upon successful transfer, the updater process applies any necessary updates to guest operating systems extensions and then signals the VMM to commit the transferred VMM update.
A method for updating a virtual machine monitor comprising:
A system comprising:
A computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions for managing an update to a virtual machine monitor, the instructions comprising instructions for:
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