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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 14, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jinto Antony, Bangalore, IN;

Sudhish Panamthanath Thankappan, Bangalore, IN;

Madhusudhanan Gangadharan, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 13/10 (2006.01); G06F 13/12 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 9/5088 (2013.01); G06F 13/107 (2013.01); G06F 13/128 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01); H04L 63/0853 (2013.01); H04L 63/0876 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of peripheral device sharing for virtual machines are described. In some aspects, a virtual machine requires access to a peripheral device. The virtual machine is executed in a first host computing system. A table is accessed, and includes a list of peripheral devices, an indication that the peripheral device is connected to a second host computing system, a bandwidth requirement of the peripheral device, and a network bandwidth allocated to the virtual machine. The virtual machine is provided with access to the peripheral device based on a comparison between the bandwidth requirement of the peripheral device, and a threshold percentage of the network bandwidth allocated to the virtual machine.


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