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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 08, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Fadi Y. Busaba, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Lisa Cranton Heller, Rhinebeck, NY (US);

Jonathan D. Bradbury, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Christian Borntraeger, Stuttgart, DE;

Claudio Imbrenda, Boeblingen, DE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45545 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45575 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a computer implemented method includes executing, by a virtual machine that is executing on a host server, a stream of instructions, wherein an instruction from the stream of instructions is to be intercepted to a hypervisor. The method further includes, based on a determination that the virtual machine is a secure virtual machine, preventing the hypervisor from directly accessing any data of the secure virtual machine. The method further includes performing by a secure interface control of the host server, based on a determination that the instruction is not interpretable by the secure interface control itself, extracting one or more parameter data associated with the instruction from the secure virtual machine, and storing the parameter data into a buffer that is accessible by the hypervisor. The instruction is subsequently intercepted into the hypervisor.


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