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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2007
Applicants:
Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Greg Hutchins, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shaw Cheng Chuang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vishnu Mohan Sekhar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Greg Hutchins, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shaw Cheng Chuang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a virtualization computer system, a method and system that does not exclusively allocate I/O devices, for example, storage and networking devices, to a commodity operating system (COS) when mainly used for booting the virtualization system. Those I/O devices needed by the COS are accessed via virtual machine kernel drivers, thereby giving the COS the benefits of operation derived from features in the virtual machine kernel that is provided for these I/O devices.