Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Future Wei Technologies, Inc.

Hewlett-packard Company

One Touch Systems, Inc.

Kaushik C Barde

Gaurav Banga

Richard Bramley

Matthew Ryan Laue

Ajay Kamalvanshi

Richard M Hartman

Anand Pandit

Gopinath Rebala

Techniques related to personal computers and devices sharing similar architectures are disclosed. Particularly shown is a system and method for enabling improved performance and security in hypervisor programs and related applications programs achieved through the use of multiple non-volatile memories.

Memory management for hypervisor loading

In accordance with an embodiment a method of running a virtual machine on a server includes controlling data path resources allocated to the virtual machine using a first supervisory process running on the server, controlling data path resources comprising controlling a data path of a hardware interface device coupled to the server, and controlling control path and initialization resources of the hardware interface device using a second process running on the server, where the second process is separate from the first supervisory process.

System and method for controlling the input/output of a virtualized network

Methods, systems, apparatuses and program products are disclosed for protecting computers and similar equipment from undesirable occurrences, especially attacks by malware. Invariant information, such as pure code and some data tables may be enrolled for later revalidation by code operating outside the normal context. For example, a periodic interrupt may invoked a system management mode interrupt service routine to discover whether code regions accessible to Protected Mode programs have become corrupted or otherwise changed, such as by tampering from untrusted or untrustworthy programs that have easy access only to protected mode operation.

Hypervisor security using SMM

Methods, systems, apparatuses and program products are disclosed for providing power/energy control. HPM (Hierarchical Power Management) systems provide for and improve on the power management support beyond what is available in current PC notebooks and desktops.

Hierarchical power management

In accordance with an embodiment, a data processing system includes a processor, a memory, and an interface port configured to be coupled to a hardware network interface device. The processor is configured to run a process that maps network switching functions of each of a plurality of virtual machines to the hardware network interface device.

System and method for an in-server virtual switch

A system memory is partitioned into a first paged partition for a first operating system and a second paged partition for a second operating system. The first paged partition is mapped into a first virtual memory partition, and the second paged partition is mapped into a second virtual memory partition. A subset of pages within the second virtual memory partition is marked as reclaimable by the first operating system to produce a set of marked pages. Responsive to a request by the first operating system for further memory, at least one reclaimable page selected from the set of marked pages is swapped out to a storage file, and the first operating system writes to the at least one reclaimable page.

Inter operating system memory hotswap to support memory growth in a non-virtualized system

Methods, systems, apparatuses and program products are disclosed for managing multiple OSes within a single computer and the like. Provision is made for swapping OSes with BIOS assistance and conforming with ACPI features for System State management especially as related to ACPI system sleep State S3.

Loading operating systems using memory segmentation and ACPI based context switch

Hierarchical power management with hot mode

Methods, systems, apparatuses and program products are disclosed for managing device virtualization in hypervisor and hypervisor-related environment which include both pass-thru I/O and emulated I/O. This may include setting up a page table entry so an instruction may execute untrapped in an unprivileged domain such as by creating a new entry in a page table with requisite read or write permissions set. Later the page table may be edited (or an entry deleted) so the same I/O instruction is trapped and responsively emulated. In another embodiment of the invention, an electronic device may be provided with at least one controller; and one non-volatile memory having instructions encoded therein which, when executed, implement the context-based virtualization An advantage provided by the present invention is that performance of the device may be traded off against resource consumed dynamically responsive to system operating conditions. Also, I/O access to peripheral devices may be switched to and fro between emulation and pass-thru operation.

Context based virtualization

Methods, systems, apparatuses and program products are disclosed for managing interrupt services in hypervisor and hypervisor-related environments in Message Signaled Interrupts are emulated as other type(s) of interrupt. According to an aspect of the present invention, a method of executing a program includes receiving a MSI (message signaled interrupt). Responsively, a virtual interrupt is generated and an ISR (interrupt service routine) is invoked that handles a line-based virtual interrupt transaction. A surrogate or virtual peripheral device status may also be provided and may be associated with the virtual interrupt. A single device interrupt event may, in certain circumstances, be serviced both as a line-based interrupt and also as an MSI, or as either responsive to run-time context. Embodiments of the present invention enable superior tradeoffs in regards to the interrupt sharing to a greater and more flexible extent than with previous implementations. Moreover, it makes possible interrupt sharing using an ISR that was not expressly designed for interrupt sharing.

Emulating a line-based interrupt transaction in response to a message signaled interrupt

A server load reduction system includes a master URL containing data. The system further includes a proxy browser, which conducts a browse operation to request the data contained in the master URL. This browse operation is conducted through a proxy server. The proxy server is capable of receiving the data from the master URL. The proxy server includes logic operative to record and distribute the data to a client server. Logic contained in the proxy browser is operative to notify a client server to load the data when the proxy server contains all of the data.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Kaushik C Barde