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Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2016
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Keith M. Adams, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jeffrey W. Sheldon, Mountain View, CA (US);

Vyacheslav V. Malyugin, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45566 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45591 (2013.01);
Abstract

Autonomous selection between multiple virtualization techniques implemented in a virtualization layer of a virtualized computer system. The virtual machine monitor implements multiple virtualization support processors that each provide for the comprehensive handling of potential virtualization exceptions. A virtual machine monitor resident virtualization selection control is operable to select between use of first and second virtualization support processors dependent on identifying a predetermined pattern of temporally local privilege dependent instructions within a portion of an instruction stream as encountered in the execution of a guest operating system.


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