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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Inventor:
Henri Van Riel, Concord, NH (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/0838 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes, with a computing system, exiting a context of a virtual machine, the exiting in response to a request from a guest operating system of the virtual machine to switch from a first encryption key identifier for the virtual machine to a second encryption key identifier for the virtual machine. The method further includes, with the computing system, loading the second encryption key identifier into a virtual machine control module of a virtual processor of the virtual machine and after loading the second encryption key identifier, entering the context of the virtual machine.