Exposing proprietary data to a hypervisor as native hypervisor data

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing one or more programs that are configured, when executed, to cause one or more processors to perform a method of exposing proprietary data to a hypervisor as native hypervisor data, the method comprising:

• identifying a proprietary disk file having a proprietary file format;
• creating a plugin file corresponding to the proprietary disk file, the hypervisor falsely recognizing the plugin file to be a native hypervisor disk file, the plugin file having a plugin file format which is different from a native hypervisor disk file format;
• creating a differencing disk file associated with the plugin file;
• receiving write requests directed to the plugin file;
• and
• redirecting the write requests to the differencing disk file.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing one or more programs that are configured, when executed, to cause one or more processors to perform a method of exposing proprietary data to a hypervisor as native hypervisor data, the method comprising:

• identifying a proprietary disk file having a proprietary file format;
• creating a plugin file corresponding to the proprietary disk file, the hypervisor recognizing the plugin file to be a native hypervisor disk file, the plugin file having a plugin file format which is different from a native hypervisor disk file format;
• intercepting a file open request directed to the plugin file;
• determining that the plugin file has the plugin file format;
• responding to the file open request with a report that the plugin file was opened successfully;
• intercepting read requests directed to the plugin file;
• and
• responding to each of the read requests with data gathered from at least one of the plugin file and the proprietary disk file based on a determination of where the requested data is stored, the data being structured to cause the data to appear to be gathered from a native hypervisor disk file due to being formatted in the native hypervisor disk file format.