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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2009
Applicants:
Daniel P. Berrange, London, GB;
Dmitri Pal, Framingham, MA (US);
Simo S. Sorce, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 21/33 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/44 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0838 (2013.01); G06F 21/445 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a mechanism for providing a trusted environment for provisioning a virtual machine is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes beginning an initialization process of a virtual machine (VM) hosted by a VM host server, obtaining by the VM as part of the initialization process a one-time password from the VM host server, the one-time password provided to the VM host server from a management server that created the one-time password, and authenticating the VM with an identity server using the one-time password.