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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2014
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bich Cau Le, San Jose, CA (US);
Jagannath Gopal Krishnan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mike Morris, Belmont, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment entails delivering a software payload to guest software in a virtual machine so that the software payload is part of a file system accessible by the guest software, wherein the delivery is such that the software payload is part of a file system accessible by the guest software. The delivering utilizes a virtual device of the virtual machine, but does not involve either a virtual network interface card (NIC) or any virtual host bus adapter (VHBA) of the virtual machine. The delivering further includes establishing a data path from the software payload to the virtual machine and a guest agent of the virtual machine. During processing of the software payload, status from the guest agent is monitored. After reception of the status indicating completion of the processing of the software payload, the data path is deactivated.