APPROACHES FOR AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES FOR RUNNING UNTRUSTED CODE SAFELY

摘要

Approaches for transferring data to a client by safely receiving the data in or more virtual machines. In response to the client determining that digital content, originating from an external source, is to be received or processed by the client, the client identifies, without human intervention, one or more virtual machines, executing or to be executed on the client, into which the digital content is to be stored. In doing so, the client may consult policy data to determine a placement policy, a containment policy, and a persistence policy for any virtual machine to receive the digital content. In this way, digital content, such as executable code or interpreted data, of unknown trustworthiness may be safely received by the client without the possibility of any malicious code therein from affecting any undesirable consequence upon the client.