Geophysical virtual machine policy allocation using a GPS, atomic clock source or regional peering host

A virtual machine allocation system comprising:

• a host having a hypervisor executing thereon, the hypervisor executing instructions to:
• responsive to receiving a request to allocate a virtual machine on the host, determine a first geophysical location of the host based on a frequency of a radio signal received from an atomic clock source;
• verifying the first geophysical location of the host by acquiring a second geophysical location from a global positioning system unit coupled to the host;
• responsive to the verifying, determine a geophysical policy for the virtual machine indicating a geophysical location where the virtual machine may be allocated;
• determine whether the geophysical policy for the virtual machine corresponds to the geophysical location of the host;
• and
• responsive to determining that the geophysical policy for the virtual machine corresponds to the geophysical location of the host, allocate the virtual machine on the host
• wherein determining and verifying the first geophysical location of the host being performed in response to at least one of a clock adjustment of the host or each time the host is booted.

A computer program product for virtual machine allocation, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising computer readable program code configured to:
• responsive to receiving a request to allocate a virtual machine, determine a geophysical location of a host for the virtual machine by accessing first geophysical data stored on the host;
• verifying the geophysical location of the host as indicated by the first geophysical data by acquiring second geophysical data from a global positioning system unit coupled to the host;
• responsive to the verifying, determine a geophysical policy for the virtual machine indicating a geophysical location where the virtual machine may be allocated;
• determine whether the geophysical policy for the virtual machine corresponds to the geophysical location of the host for the virtual machine;
• and
• responsive to determining that the geophysical policy for the virtual machine corresponds to the geophysical location of the host, allocate the virtual machine on the host
• wherein determining and verifying the first geophysical location of the host being performed in response to at least one of a clock adjustment of the host or each time the host is booted.