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Virtual appliance pre-boot authentication

US8131987B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Dell Products L.P. · US

Inventors

Yuan-Chang Lo · Austin, US
Aaron Merkin · Holly Springs, US
Abeye Teshome · Austin, US

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 10, 2008
Grant date	Mar 6, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 27, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L9/3231
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system for pre-boot authentication of a virtual appliance includes one or more subsystems to receive a command to power-on an information handling system (IHS). After receiving the command to power-on the IHS, the system initializes a power-on self test (POST), passes control of the IHS to a hypervisor, loads a concurrent service environment (CSE), requests user credentials, receives user credentials, authenticates user credentials using the CSE and authorizes a specific operating system image from a plurality of images to run on the IHS via the virtual appliance after the user credentials are authenticated.

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