US Patent 11467886 Migrating virtual machines between computing environments

Virtual machines can be migrated between computing environments. For example, a system can receive a request to perform a migration process involving migrating a virtual machine from a source computing environment to a target computing environment. The target computing environment may be a cloud computing environment. In response to the request, the system can receive first configuration data for a first version of the virtual machine that is located in the source computing environment. The first configuration data can describe virtualized features of the first version of the virtual machine. The system can use the first configuration data to generate second configuration data for a second version of the virtual machine that is to be deployed in the target computing environment. The system can then deploy the second version of the virtual machine within one or more containers of the target computing environment in accordance with the second configuration data.