Patent ID: 9438477
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A virtual machine allocation method, comprising: responsive to receiving a request to allocate a virtual machine, determining a geophysical location of a host for the virtual machine by accessing first geophysical data stored on the host; verifying the geophysical location of the host as indicated by the first geophysical data by acquiring second geophysical data from a global positioning system unit coupled to the host; responsive to the verifying, determining a geophysical policy for the virtual machine indicating a geophysical location where the virtual machine may be allocated; determining whether the geophysical policy for the virtual machine corresponds to the geophysical location of the host for the virtual machine; and responsive to determining that the geophysical policy for the virtual machine corresponds to the geophysical location of the host, allocating the virtual machine on the host wherein determining and verifying the first geophysical location of the host being performed in response to at least one of a clock adjustment of the host or each time the host is booted.