Systems and Methods for Selecting Between Emulated and Non-Emulated Resources for Providing an Emulation Session

摘要

Systems and methods for selecting between emulated and non-emulated hardware resources for providing an emulation session is disclosed. The method involves a plurality of emulation parameters including the computer product to be emulated, at least one kind of external hardware resource usable to provide the emulation, and selection criteria for determining whether to provide the at least one kind of external hardware resource as an emulated or a non-emulated hardware resource. The method includes receiving an emulation request from a client device; determining the plurality of emulation parameters; for each of the at least one kind of external hardware resource, selecting one and only one of the emulated and the non-emulated hardware resource to provide an operating instance of the at least one kind of external hardware resource based at least in part on the selection criteria; and providing the emulation to the client device using the selected resources.