Janice S O'Brien

US Patent:

20100064364, Mar 11, 2010

Filed:

Sep 11, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/208619

Inventors:

Ismail Shamirulla Khan - Bangalore, IN
Manish Kulshreshtha - Chennai, IN
Janice Margaret O'Brien - Round Rock TX, US
Dilip Kumar Singh - Bangalore, IN

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H04L 9/32
G06F 9/44

US Classification:

726 21, 718100

Abstract:

A method of processing multiple workload using virtualized operating system environments. The creation of a new user in a global operating system may automatically cause the creation of a working partition (WPAR) instance. The user will be associated with the WPAR instance and a virtualized operating system environment will be created from the global operating system within the WPAR instance. Within the WPAR instance, the user may be assigned a root identification which enables the user to have root access privileges to perform operations or processes that may only be performed by a root user. The removal of a user from the system also results in the deletion of the associated WPAR.