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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2010
Vikas Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashish K. Hanwadikar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert F. Deuel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shiqi Charlie Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Hui LI, Fremont, CA (US);
Vikas Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashish K. Hanwadikar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert F. Deuel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shiqi Charlie Sun, San Jose, CA (US);
Hui Li, Fremont, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for maintaining domain access of a virtual machine is described. According to one embodiment, a generation of a new computer account password by an operating system is identified. The new computer account password is copied to an auxiliary storage location. An existing computer account password is replaced with the new computer account password when it is determined that a file system of the computer has been restored to a previous state. The copying of the new computer account password may be performed in response to the generation of the new computer account password. The replacing of the existing computer account password may be performed in response to the restoring of file system to the previous state.