Patent ID: 9063814
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: configuring, by a player outside a virtual machine image, a network file system server on a host computer to export a directory in a host file system on the host computer; assigning, by the player, the exported directory in the host file system to the virtual machine image, wherein said assignment is performed and maintained outside the virtual machine image; executing, by the player, the virtual machine image; and passing, by the player, a network file system path that corresponds to the exported directory to the executing virtual machine image, thereby enabling a dependent helper that implements a user file system protocol in the executing virtual machine image to: receive the network file system path; extract the host computer's address and a relative path to the exported directory from the network file system path; send a request to the host computer's address, wherein the request includes the relative path; and in response to receiving permission from the host computer to access the exported directory, mount the exported directory as a user file system within the executing virtual machine image.