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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2007
Applicants:
Daniel K. Hiltgen, San Jose, CA (US);
Rene W. Schmidt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel K. Hiltgen, San Jose, CA (US);
Rene W. Schmidt, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/485 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 21/53 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention is a method including: (a) representing virtual primary disk data and state data of a virtual machine in a unit of storage; (b) exposing the virtual primary disk data of the virtual machine to a guest of the virtual machine to allow the guest to access the virtual primary disk data; and (c) preventing the guest from accessing the state data for the virtual machine.