Patent ID: 8943105
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing one or more programs that are configured, when executed, to cause one or more processors to perform a method of exposing a proprietary disk file to a hypervisor as a native hypervisor disk file, the method comprising: creating a plugin file corresponding to a proprietary disk file, the proprietary disk file having a proprietary file format; intercepting, using a file system filter driver that sits between a hypervisor and a file system where the plugin file is stored, file read requests directed to the plugin file; and responding, using the file system filter driver, to each of the file read requests with data gathered from the plugin file and/or the proprietary disk file, the data structured to cause the data to appear to be gathered from a native hypervisor disk file due to being formatted in a native file format of the hypervisor.