Granted Patent B2

US 12,602,240 · App. 17/886,885 · Granted Apr 14, 2026

Inventor: Tiejun Chen (Beijing, CN)

Assignee: VMware LLC

G06F9/45558H04L51/21H04L67/562G06F2009/45595

Abstract

Claims (51)

1 . A system, comprising:

at least one computing device comprising one or more processors; and

instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the at least one computing device perform operations comprising

executing an edge hypervisor shadow application that provides Input/Output (I/O) functionalities for an edge hypervisor that is IP inaccessible to a virtualization service, wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application is IP accessible to the virtualization service;

receiving, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) request from the virtualization service, wherein the HTTP request comprises virtualization instructions for the edge hypervisor;

generating, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) message that includes the HTTP request; and

publishing, by the edge hypervisor shadow application to an MQTT broker service, the MQTT message that includes the HTTP request;

receiving, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a response MQTT message comprising an HTTP response that the edge hypervisor generates in response to the HTTP request;

extracting, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, the HTTP response from the MQTT message; and

transmitting, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, the HTTP response to the virtualization service.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application publishes the MQTT message to a topic identifier that an edge agent subscribes to, wherein the edge hypervisor is IP accessible to the edge agent.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application generates the MQTT message by modifying the HTTP request by replacing a network address of the edge hypervisor shadow application with a private IP address of the edge hypervisor.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application is deployed within a virtual machine that is executed in a host device that is IP accessible to the virtualization service.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

subscribing, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, to a topic identifier uniquely associated with the edge hypervisor.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application runs on a host selected by the virtualization service.

7 . The system of claim 1 wherein the operations further comprise:

registering, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, as the edge hypervisor with the virtualization service; and

communicating, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, with the virtualization service as a local Input/Output (I/O) endpoint for the edge hypervisor.

8 . A method, comprising:

executing an edge hypervisor shadow application that provides Input/Output (I/O) functionalities for an edge hypervisor that is IP inaccessible to a virtualization service, wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application is IP accessible to the virtualization service;

receiving, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) request from the virtualization service, wherein the HTTP request comprises virtualization instructions for the edge hypervisor;

generating, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) message that includes the HTTP request;

publishing, by the edge hypervisor shadow application to an MQTT broker service, the MQTT message that includes the HTTP request;

receiving, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a response MQTT message comprising an HTTP response that the edge hypervisor generates in response to the HTTP request;

extracting, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, the HTTP response from the MQTT message; and

transmitting, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, the HTTP response to the virtualization service.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application publishes the MQTT message to a topic identifier that an edge agent subscribes to, wherein the edge hypervisor is IP accessible to the edge agent.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application generates the MQTT message by modifying the HTTP request by replacing a network address of the edge hypervisor shadow application with a private IP address of the edge hypervisor.

11 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application is deployed within a virtual machine that is executed in a host device that is IP accessible to the virtualization service.

12 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

subscribing, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, to a topic identifier uniquely associated with the edge hypervisor.

13 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application runs on a host selected by the virtualization service.

14 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

registering, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, as the edge hypervisor with the virtualization service; and

communicating, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, with the virtualization service as a local Input/Output (I/O) endpoint for the edge hypervisor.

15 . A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying instructions executable by one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

executing an edge hypervisor shadow application that provides Input/Output (I/O) functionalities for an edge hypervisor that is IP inaccessible to a virtualization service, wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application is IP accessible to the virtualization service;

receiving, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) request from the virtualization service, wherein the HTTP request comprises virtualization instructions for the edge hypervisor;

generating, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) message that includes the HTTP request;

publishing, by the edge hypervisor shadow application to an MQTT broker service, the MQTT message that includes the HTTP request;

receiving, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a response MQTT message comprising an HTTP response that the edge hypervisor generates in response to the HTTP request;

extracting, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, the HTTP response from the MQTT message; and

transmitting, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, the HTTP response to the virtualization service.

16 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application publishes the MQTT message to a topic identifier that an edge agent subscribes to, wherein the edge hypervisor is IP accessible to the edge agent.

17 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application generates the MQTT message by modifying the HTTP request by replacing a network address of the edge hypervisor shadow application with a private IP address of the edge hypervisor.

18 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application is deployed within a virtual machine that is executed in a host device that is IP accessible to the virtualization service.

19 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the operations further comprise:

subscribing, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, to a topic identifier uniquely associated with the edge hypervisor; and

receiving, by the edge hypervisor shadow application, a response MQTT message comprising an HTTP response that the edge hypervisor generates in response to the HTTP request.

20 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the edge hypervisor shadow application runs on a host selected by the virtualization service.

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