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US 2013/0212581 A1Published application
System, Method and Computer Program Product for Performing a Security or Maintenance Operation in Association with Virtual Disk Data
AssigneeMcAfee, Inc.
InventorsJonathan L. Edwards, John D. Teddy, Tracy E. Camp
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Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for performing a security or maintenance operation in association with virtual disk data accessed independent of a virtual machine. In use, data stored on a virtual disk is accessed at least in part independent of a virtual machine. Further, a security or maintenance operation is performed in association with the accessed data.
Claims20
A method comprising the steps of:
- Identifying a virtual disk that is associated with a virtual machine;
- without employing the virtual machine, parsing the virtual disk to identify one or more registry files associated with the virtual machine;
- without employing the virtual machine, using an identified registry file to perform a security operation for the benefit of the virtual machine without employing the virtual machine.
A computer system comprising:
- a virtual machine;
- a virtual disk associated with the virtual machine;
- an operating system adapted to run on the computer system and not part of the virtual machine;
- a security application associated with the operating system and not part of the virtual machine;
- a processor for executing a first code segment associated with the security application and, the execution of the first code segment is expected to cause the parsing of the virtual disk to identify a registry file associated with the virtual machine;
- the processor also for executing a second code segment associated with the security application, the execution of the second code segment expected to cause the use of the identified registry files to perform a security operation for the benefit of the virtual machine.
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A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:
- computer code for identifying a virtual disk that is associated with a virtual machine;
- computer code not residing within the virtual machine, for parsing the virtual disk to identify one or more registry files associated with the virtual machine;
- computer code not residing within the virtual machine, for using an identified registry file to perform a security operation for the benefit of the virtual machine without employing the virtual machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.