Abstract: A container layer for allowing a plurality of game instances running on an operating system to maintain full game functionality is configured to intercept a communication from a game instance of the plurality of game instances to the operating system and provide an appropriate response to the intercepted communication.

Abstract: A method for providing content delivery and management to a client device that includes mapping the client device to a corresponding controller, presenting available content to the client device, determining data centers available to service the client device, and initializing a data center to service content requested by the client.

Abstract: A data center architecture for remote rendering includes a hardware processor, a memory, a storage device, a graphics processor, a virtual machine monitor functionally connected to the hardware processor, memory, and storage device, one or more virtual machine game servers functionally connected to the virtual machine monitor, each virtual machine game server including a virtual processor, a virtual memory, a virtual storage, a virtual operating system, and a game binary executing under the control of the virtual operating system; a virtual machine rendering server functionally connected to the virtual machine monitor and functionally connected to the graphics processor, the virtual machine rendering server including: a virtual memory, a virtual storage, a virtual operating system, and one or more renderers.