step 235 the remote system confirms that the vm hosted system has been shut down as expected this may be done by simply waiting for a predetermined amount of time or may be actively confirmed by pinging the vm hosted system and checking for a response for example other methods to ensure that the vm hosted system has been shut down before the method proceeds further may be used once it has been confirmed in step 235 that the vm hosted system is shut down the method proceeds to step 240 in which a data file is generated and transmitted to the first user of the vm host here the data file is generated so as to comprise an ipl request for the vm hosted system a second authentication key for first user of the vm host next in step 245 the data file is received by the first user of the vm host and verified by checking its second authentication key if the second authentication key of the data file is determined to be invalid the data file is ignored if on the other hand the second authentication key of the data file is determined to be valid the ipl.