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Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 07, 2017
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhikai Chen, Beijing, CN;

Zhibin He, Beijing, CN;

Xi Chen, Beijing, CN;

Wen Wang, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 9/4406 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of rebooting a computing system in which a virtual machine (VM) runs on top of a hypervisor and a host operating system (OS) includes the following steps. Those steps are sending, from the host OS to the hypervisor, a pre-reboot notification that the host OS is going to reboot, in response to reception of the pre-reboot notification, saving by the hypervisor state of a session that is executing in the VM, rebooting the host OS, after the host OS is rebooted, logging on to the host OS using a credential provider that was previously registered with the host OS and sending a post-reboot notification from the host OS to the hypervisor, and in response to reception of the post-reboot notification, instantiating by the hypervisor a VM in which the session is resumed using the saved state of the session.


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