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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Debapriya Chatterjee, Austin, TX (US);
Bryant Cockcroft, Austin, TX (US);
John A. Schumann, Austin, TX (US);
Karen Yokum, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A hardware request of an application is detected. The Application executes on a virtualized computer system. It is determined that the hardware request includes a counter. The counter is to be performed by the virtualized computer system. The counter includes a counter value. The hardware request is intercepted before the it is processed by a hypervisor that hosts the virtualized computer system. The interception is based on the determining the hardware request includes the counter. The counter value is saved in a secure memory. The secure memory is obscured from the hypervisor. A scrambled counter value is generated. The hardware request is updated with the scrambled counter value. After the hardware request is updated it is provided to the hypervisor.