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Patch management of virtualized servers isn’t all that different with regular servers because each virtual operating system is its own independent virtual hard drive.  You still need a patch management system that patches all of your servers, but there may be interesting developments in the future where you may be able to patch multiple operating systems at the same time if they share some common operating system or application binaries.  Ideally, you would be able to assign a patch level to an individual or a group of similar servers.  For now, you will need to patch virtual operating systems as you would any other system, but there will be some innovations in the virtualization sector that you won’t be able to do with physical servers.