Patent ID: 9015706
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for interaction with a guest virtual machine comprising: monitoring, on a physical platform hosting a virtualization environment, at least one image load into electronic memory of a guest virtual machine (GVM) using a secure virtual machine (SVM), wherein the GVM and the SVM run on a hypervisor of the virtualization environment and the SVM is a management component of the virtualization environment, the monitoring comprising scanning exported data structures in the loaded image; identifying, by the SVM, one or more tagged control blocks in the scanned data structures, wherein a tagged control block comprises a data structure which follows a predefined naming convention specific to the SVM and which contains data meant for the SVM to consume and/or populate in order to implement a tagged memory communication scheme between the GVM and the SVM; and performing, using the SVM, at least: