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Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Sudheer Kurichiyath, Bangalore, IN;

Joel E. Lilienkamp, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1008 (2013.01); G06F 2212/657 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for enabling communication between a virtual machine and the host of the virtual machine are disclosed. An example computing device includes a host operating system and a virtual machine running on the host operating system. The storage device also includes a split driver. The split driver includes a frontend driver residing on the virtual machine and a backend driver residing on the host. The split driver processes messages received from the virtual machine and passes the messages from the frontend driver to the backend driver.


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