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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Theodore J. Bohizic, Hyde Park, NY (US);
Richard T. Brandle, Dallas, TX (US);
Ping T. Chan, Fishkill, NY (US);
Michael S. Cirulli, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Paul M. Gioquindo, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Ying-yeung LI, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Stephen R. Valley, Valatie, NY (US);
Theodore J. Bohizic, Hyde Park, NY (US);
Richard T. Brandle, Dallas, TX (US);
Ping T. Chan, Fishkill, NY (US);
Michael S. Cirulli, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Paul M. Gioquindo, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Ying-Yeung Li, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Stephen R. Valley, Valatie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An article of manufacture, method and system are provided for facilitating input/output (I/O) processing of at least one guest processing system. The article of manufacture includes at least one computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code logic to facilitate the I/O processing of the at least one guest processing system. The computer-readable program code logic when executing performing the following: emulating on a native system an I/O architecture for the at least one guest processing system, the emulating including: providing multiple device managers for a plurality of I/O devices of the I/O architecture; providing at least one communications adapter process interfacing the multiple device managers to the at least one network driver process; and wherein the multiple device managers translate I/O messages in at least one guest processing system format to messages in native system format for processing by the at least one communications adapter process, thereby facilitating I/O processing.