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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2014
Storagecraft Technology Corporation, Draper, UT (US);
Nathan S. Bushman, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);
Maxim Shatskikh, Moscow, RU;
StorageCraft Technology Corporation, Draper, UT (US);
Abstract
Exposing a proprietary disk file to a hypervisor as a native hypervisor disk file. In one example embodiment, a method includes various steps. For example, the method includes creating a plugin file corresponding to a proprietary disk file having a proprietary file format. The method also includes intercepting, using a file system filter driver that sits between the hypervisor and a file system where the plugin file is stored, file read requests directed to the plugin file. The method further includes responding, using the file system filter driver, to each of the file read requests with data gathered from the plugin file and/or the proprietary disk file, where the data is structured such that the data appears to be gathered from a native hypervisor disk file due to being formatted in a native file format of the hypervisor.