Patent ID: 11900138
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A method of enabling remote access to a console of a virtual machine (VM) running in a host and managed by a VM management server, from a remote computing device, the method comprising:
in response to a request from the VM management server to access a proxy server through which the console of the VM is accessed from the remote computing device, wherein the request includes a first ticket including an identifier of the host in which the VM is running, returning by the proxy server a second ticket that permits access to the proxy server, to the VM management server;
mapping by the proxy server the first ticket to the second ticket; and
upon verifying by the proxy server that a third ticket transmitted by the remote computing device matches the second ticket, identifying by the proxy server the host using the first ticket that is mapped to the second ticket, forwarding by the proxy server mouse, keyboard, and screen (MKS) traffic from the remote computing device to the host and forwarding by the proxy server MKS traffic from the host to the remote computing device.