Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20090158432
Filing Date: December 12, 2007
Inventors: Yufeng Zheng, Xiaoxin Chen, Bich Cau Le, Jagannath Gopal Krishnan, Derek Uluski
Assignee(s): VMWARE, Inc.
Current U.S. Classification: 726, 726/024000
View Prior Art for Claim 00004
The method of Claim 1, wherein the information identifying the location of the data to be scanned comprises identification of at least one guest virtual disk block, the guest virtual disk blocks containing the file on a virtual disk that is accessible by the target VM, wherein the scanning further comprises:obtaining identifications of physical disk blocks that are mapped to the guest virtual disk blocks, the physical disk blocks being disk blocks of a physical disk accessible to the host platform; and the reading of the data comprises accessing and reading the physical disk blocks. 
