Patent ID: 8549516

Claim:
A method for controlling, by a hypervisor, access to physical resources during execution of a virtual machine, the method comprising: allocating, by a hypervisor, to a virtual disk in a virtual machine, an amount of access to at least one physical disk; determining, by the hypervisor, that a level of utilization of the at least one physical disk exceeds a threshold; selecting, by the hypervisor, based at least in part on the determination, an action from a plurality of predefined actions for limiting access to the at least one physical disk, wherein the predefined actions are defined in a file, and wherein at least one predefined action in the plurality allows for continued access by the virtual disk to the at least one physical disk; and limiting, by the hypervisor, in response to the determination and in accordance with the selected action, access by the virtual disk to the at least one physical disk.