# US 2020/0401437 A1 · Methods and apparatus to manage virtual machines

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- Number: US 2020/0401437 A1
- Document ID: US20200401437A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 16/916,077
- Filed: 2020-06-29
- Published: 2020-12-24
- Earliest claimed: 2013-10-11
- Assignees: VMware, Inc.
- Applicants: VMware, Inc.
- Inventors: Thirumalesh Reddy; Sreekantha Indireddy; Shreekanth Ankala; Bhavin Mathia
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20200401437A1

## CPC

- G06F 9/45558: {Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects}
- G06F 9/45533: {Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors}
- G06F 9/5077: {Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources (specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455)}
- G06F 16/24: Querying
- G06F 9/44505: {Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files}
- G06F 2009/4557: {Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing}
- G06F 2009/45595: {Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances}
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

Methods and apparatus to manage virtual machines are disclosed. An example method includes determining that a deployment of a first virtual machine has halted because the first virtual machine is dependent on a second virtual machine that has not been fully deployed and in response to detecting that the second virtual machine has been deployed, notifying, via a processor, the first virtual machine that deployment of the first virtual machine may continue.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method comprising:
determining that a deployment of a first virtual machine has halted because the first virtual machine is dependent on a second virtual machine that has not been fully deployed; and
in response to detecting that the second virtual machine has been deployed, notifying, via a processor, the first virtual machine that deployment of the first virtual machine may continue.