US Patent 11461121 Guest-driven virtual machine snapshots

Systems and methods include a snapshot interface to receive, from an application executing within a virtualized execution environment, a request to generate a snapshot of the virtualized execution environment. The snapshot interface forwards the request to generate the snapshot to a virtualization manager. The snapshot interface then receives, from the virtualization manager, a result of the request to generate the snapshot, the result indicating whether the snapshot was generated. Finally, the snapshot interface forwards, to the application, the result of the request.