Proxy for injecting configuration information

摘要

A proxy operating inside of a virtual machine that is responsible for receiving user-specified configuration information, such as credentials, and updating the configuration of the virtual machine with the user-specified values at the time of assigning the virtual machine to a user. Once the proxy updates the configuration of the virtual machine, the virtual machine is assigned the user that provided the user configuration information and the proxy can deactivate or uninstall itself from the virtual machine, such as by deleting all files, registry entries and other traces of execution.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions, which when executed by one or more processors to cause a computing system to:
initiate provisioning of a virtual machine on a host computing device, the virtual machine including an operating system and a proxy operable to modify a configuration of the operating system on the virtual machine; suspend provisioning of the virtual machine and register the virtual machine with a pool of pre-staged virtual machines; receive a request for the virtual machine from a user and receive user-specified configuration information to be used in configuring the virtual machine, the user-specified configuration information including one or more credentials of a user; selecting the virtual machine from the pool of pre-staged virtual machines in response to the request; transfer the user-specified configuration information to the proxy on the virtual machine, the proxy configured to update the configuration of the operating system on the virtual machine with the user-specified configuration information such that the virtual machine is accessible using the one or more credentials of the user as a result of the update; deactivate the proxy on the virtual machine; and enable the user to access the virtual machine.