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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1998
Frank W. Brice, Jr., Hurley, NY (US);
Eugene P. Hefferon, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Casper A. Scalzi, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Richard P. Tarcza, Kingston, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
This invention describes a method and system for virtualizing an internal capability of a computing system; specifically, the invention describes a method and system for establishing a virtual machine containing a programmed hardware-machine function that is normally executed natively as proprietary internal code in its own hardware environment, a Central Electronics Complex (CEC) or logical partition of a CEC. The code resides in a separate hardware domain of the CEC called the Service Element (SE). The IBM VM/ESA (VM) operating system requests the SE to transfer a copy of the code into a virtual machine that VM has initialized, where the machine function is provided (in the current embodiment) as an isolated and encapsulated part of a virtual Parallel Sysplex system comprising multiple virtual CECs in a testing environment.