VMware: We're gonna patent hot-swapping your VMs' host OS

Changing operating system updates forever

Comment VMware looks set to renew its relevancy with a new patent application. The patent application lists inventors Mukund Gunti, Vishnu Sekhar and Bernhard Poess and assigns the patent to VMware. The short version of the patent is that, if granted, VMware will have effectively patented the ability to hot swap a host server's operating system underneath running virtual machines and other applications."