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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
May. 15, 2006
Applicants:
Shuvabrata Ganguly, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew J. Thornton, Seattle, WA (US);
John F. Wiederhirn, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth D. Ray, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Shuvabrata Ganguly, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew J. Thornton, Seattle, WA (US);
John F. Wiederhirn, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth D. Ray, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The launching of a hypervisor after there is already a running operating system. The operating system itself may launch the hypervisor. The running operating system may be used instead of the hypervisor to discover the physical resources running on the computing system. Other operating systems or operating system instances may be launched after the hypervisor is operational.