Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for guest operating system using containers
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Application No.: US16504075Application Date: 2019-07-05
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Publication No.: US11042398B2Publication Date: 2021-06-22
- Inventor: Guruprasad Ganesh , Sudhi Herle , Ahmed M. Azab , Rohan Bhutkar , Ivan Getta , Xun Chen , Wenbo Shen , Ruowen Wang , Haining Chen , Khaled Elwazeer , Mengmeng Li , Peng Ning , Hyungseok Yu , Myungsu Cha , Kyungsun Lee , Se Young Choi , Yurak Choe , Yong Shin , Kyoung-Joong Shin , Donguk Seo , Junyong Choi
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/48 ; G06F9/54 ; G06F9/445

Abstract:
A method for operating an electronic device, the method including spawning a name space tool (NST) as part of a boot process of a host OS, wherein the NST is a process with a plurality of root privileges of the host OS. The method further includes spawning, by the NST, a container for a guest OS, wherein the container for the guest OS is mapped to a dedicated domain in the host OS, and dropping, by the NST, a root privilege of the host OS in response to spawning the container for the guest OS.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200012511A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GUEST OPERATING SYSTEM USING CONTAINERS Public/Granted day:2020-01-09
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