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System and method for security and privacy aware virtual machine checkpointing

  • US 9,069,782 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2013
  • Issued: 06/30/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A checkpointing method for creating a file representing a restorable state of a virtual machine in a computing system, comprising:

  • at least one of;

    (a) identifying processes executing within the virtual machine that may store confidential data; and

    marking memory pages and files that potentially contain data stored by the identified processes; and

    (b) providing an application programming interface for marking memory regions and files within the virtual machine that contain confidential data stored by processes; and

    creating a checkpoint file, by capturing memory pages and files representing a current state of the computing system, which excludes information from all of the marked memory pages and files.

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