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Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2013
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shweta Goyal, Pune, IN;

Niranjan Pendharkar, Pune, IN;

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45545 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method for sending information to guest systems within virtual machines may include receiving, from a guest system within a virtual machine hosted on a host system, a request for virtual device information about a virtual device which may inaccurately represent to the guest system a state of a physical storage device connected to the host system, gathering physical device information via the host system about the physical storage device connected to the host system, determining a mapping of the virtual device within the guest system to the physical storage device connected to the host system, correlating the physical device information with the mapping to determine accurate information about the virtual device and sending the accurate information about the virtual device from the host system to the guest system within the virtual machine. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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