Patent ID: 8924972

Claim:
A method for logging into a guest virtual environment (VE) from a host VE, comprising: receiving a request to log into the guest VE from the host VE; in response to the request, creating a virtual terminal driver (VTD), wherein the VTD comprises a host extender located in the host VE and a guest extender located in a sub-host VE, wherein the host VE and sub-host VE are configured to communicate using a master terminal and a slave terminal; providing the guest extender to the third VE as a virtual serial terminal (VST); and logging into the guest VE using the master terminal, the slave terminal, a virtual environment manager (VEM), and the VTD, wherein the guest VE is a virtual machine, wherein the VEM is a hypervisor managing the guest VE, and wherein logging into the guest VE comprises: creating, in the sub-host VE, a login handler enabled to communicate with the slave terminal; obtaining, by the login handler, login parameters from the slave terminal; modifying, by the login handler, the login parameters to create modified login parameters; providing the modified login parameters to the guest VE; and initializing a login session.