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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2022
International Business Machines Coporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Reinhard T. Buendgen, Tuebingen, DE;
Jonathan D. Bradbury, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Lisa Cranton Heller, Rhinebeck, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and a system where a secure interface control determines whether an instance of a secure guest image can execute based on metadata. The secure interface control ('SC') obtains metadata linked to an image of a secure guest of an owner and managed by the hypervisor that includes control(s) that indicates whether the hypervisor is permitted to execute an instance of a secure guest generated with the image in the computing system based on system setting(s) in the computing system. The SC intercepts a command by the hypervisor to initiate the instance. The SC determines the presence or the absence of system setting(s) in the computing system. The SC determines if the hypervisor is permitted to execute the instance. If so, the SC enables initiation of the instance by the hypervisor. If not, the SC ignores the command.