Secure printing in a virtualized computing environment

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which in response to execution by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method to perform secure printing in a virtualized computing environment that includes a host device, wherein the method comprises:

• receiving, from the host device, print data of a file;
• determining whether secure printing is to be applied to the print data;
• in response to determination that the secure printing is to be applied to the print data, sending a message to a user device to notify a user of the user device that the print data is available for the secure printing;
• in response to receiving a print request from the user device to securely print the print data, comparing a hash code in the message to an entry in a metadata map;
• and
• in response to the hash code matching the entry in the metadata map, performing the secure printing of the print data at a printer.

A computing device to perform secure printing in a virtualized computing environment that includes a host device, the computing device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which in response to execution by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations that include:
• receive, from the host device, print data of a file;
• determine whether secure printing is to be applied to the print data;
• in response to determination that the secure printing is to be applied to the print data, send a message to a user device to notify a user of the user device that the print data is available for the secure printing;
• in response to receiving a print request from the user device to securely print the print data, compare a hash code in the message to an entry in a metadata map;
• and
• in response to the hash code matching the entry in the metadata map, perform the secure printing of the print data at a printer.