Patent ID: 9392080
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A virtual machine host comprising: a processor; a network interface comprising a physical connection to an IPv6 network; a virtual machine host application configured to host a first virtual machine, said first virtual machine being configured to communicate using a first IPv4 address; a virtual network configured to communicate with said first virtual machine via IPv4 communications; a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) service on said virtual network configured to obtain the first IPv4 address for the first virtual machine; a database including a mapping of the first IPv4 address to a first IPV6 address; and a translator configured to receive an IPv6 communication from said network interface, translate said IPv6 communication to an IPv4 communication, and transmit said IPv4 communication over said virtual network; wherein the translator uses the database to map the first IPv6 address associated with the IPv6 communication into the first IPv4 address associated with the first virtual machine, wherein the first IPv6 address is obtained from a DHCP server external to the virtual machine host.