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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2012
Yiwen Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Liang Cui, Beijing, CN;
Zhifeng Xia, Beijing, CN;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments provide a system including a first host computing device that includes a first virtual machine (VM) and a first application. The system also includes a second host computing device including a virtualization software layer, a second VM, and an auto-discovery service at least partially instantiated within the virtualization software layer. The auto-discovery service is configured to receive a message and an auto-discovery packet from a second application executing on the second VM. The auto-discovery service inserts an option into the auto-discovery packet, and transmits the auto-discovery packet to the first application. The option in the auto-discovery packet includes the message received from the second application.