Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mitchell James Schmidt

Keith Edgar Horton

Randy Joseph Miller

Andrew Mario Beltrano

Catalin-Emil Fetoiu

Guillaume Philippe Adrien Hetier

Matthew Yutaka Ige

Alan Thomas Gavin Jowett

A network firewall is disclosed that operates between a virtualized environment and the processing system that provides the virtualized environment. The network firewall filters network traffic generated by and destined for program components executing in the virtualized environment. The network firewall can be located in a hypervisor, a flow steering engine, or at another location between the virtualized environment and the processing system. The network firewall utilizes a firewall policy that can be shared with a network firewall on the processing system that filters network traffic originating at or destined for the processing system. The network firewall can filter network traffic based upon a unique identifier assigned to a virtualized environment, upon port numbers assigned to program components in a virtualized environment, or upon profiles assigned to network interfaces. The network firewall can also filter loopback traffic between a guest operating system (OS) and a host OS.

Providing a network firewall between a virtualized environment and a host processing system

Technologies are disclosed for providing compatible network resources to program components executing in a virtualized environment. Virtual network adapters are created in a virtualized environment that correspond to network interfaces present on a host processing system. A virtual network interface is created in the virtualized environment and exposed to program components executing in the virtualized environment. Network packets are routed between the program components executing in the virtualized environment, the virtual network interface, the active virtual network adapter, and the network interface on the host processing system corresponding to the active virtual network adapter. Network control messages generated by program components executing in a virtualized environment are intercepted and forwarded to a host processing system for processing.

Providing compatible network resources to program components executing in a virtualized environment

Technologies are disclosed for enabling virtual private network (VPN) support in a virtualized environment. The presence or creation of a host VPN adapter on a host processing system providing a virtualized environment is detected and, in response thereto, a virtual network adapter is created in the virtualized environment. A guest operating system (OS) creates a guest VPN adapter in the virtualized environment. A software component is inserted between the guest VPN adapter and the virtual network adapter. The software component adds Ethernet frames to point-to-point protocol (PPP) packets received from the guest VPN adapter and removes Ethernet frames from packets received from the virtual network adapter.

Enabling virtual private network (VPN) support in a virtualized environment

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Mitchell James Schmidt