US Patent 10460113 Security fix of a container in a virtual machine environment

A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for a security fix of a container in a VM (virtual machine) environment. A computer detects a container in a container environment, determines whether the container has a security issue performs live migration of the container to a created VM, fixes the security issue of the container in the created VM, and determines whether the security issue is fixed. In response to determining that the security issue is fixed, the computer performs live migration of the created VM to the container environment.