US 12,169,554 B2
Hypervisor assisted virtual machine clone auto-registration with cloud
Leena Shuklendu Soman, Pune (IN); Bharath Kumar Chandrasekhar, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Shirish Vijayvargiya, Pune (IN); Vasantha Kumar Dhanasekar, Pune (IN); and Vaibhav Mohan Rekhate, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/701,768.
Claims priority of application No. 202241001119 (IN), filed on Jan. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0222210 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/53 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 21/53 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for registering with a cloud security monitoring service, the method comprising:
detecting a connection between a cloud agent running in a virtual machine on a host and a hypervisor module on the host;
in response to detecting the connection, querying the hypervisor module, by the cloud agent, for one or more first identifiers of the virtual machine;
checking a database, by the cloud agent, for one or more second identifiers stored in the database matching the one or more first identifiers received from the hypervisor module; and
based on finding no second identifiers stored in the database matching the one or more first identifiers, sending a request to the cloud security monitoring service to register the virtual machine with the cloud security monitoring service.