Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Transparent interpretation of guest instructions in secure virtual machine environment
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Application No.: US16296316Application Date: 2019-03-08
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Publication No.: US10956188B2Publication Date: 2021-03-23
- Inventor: Fadi Y. Busaba , Lisa Cranton Heller , Jonathan D. Bradbury , Christian Borntraeger , Claudio Imbrenda
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Agent Steven Chiu
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455

Abstract:
According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a computer implemented method includes executing, by a virtual machine that is executing on a host server, a stream of instructions, wherein an instruction from the stream of instructions is to be intercepted to a hypervisor. The method further includes, based on a determination that the virtual machine is a secure virtual machine, preventing the hypervisor from directly accessing any data of the secure virtual machine. The method further includes performing by a secure interface control of the host server, based on a determination that the instruction is not interpretable by the secure interface control itself, extracting one or more parameter data associated with the instruction from the secure virtual machine, and storing the parameter data into a buffer that is accessible by the hypervisor. The instruction is subsequently intercepted into the hypervisor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200285494A1 TRANSPARENT INTERPRETATION OF GUEST INSTRUCTIONS IN SECURE VIRTUAL MACHINE ENVIRONMENT Public/Granted day:2020-09-10
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