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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 25, 2010
Xue Yang, Arcadia, CA (US);
Hsin-yuo Liu, Fremont, CA (US);
Praveen Gopalakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sebastian Schoenberg, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sanjay Kumar, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Xue Yang, Arcadia, CA (US);
Hsin-Yuo Liu, Fremont, CA (US);
Praveen Gopalakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sebastian Schoenberg, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sanjay Kumar, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems to permit multiple virtual machines (VMs) to separately configure and access a physical resource, substantially outside of a virtual machine monitor (VMM) that hosts the VMs. Each of a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) may access and configure the physical device through corresponding instances of a device driver that exposes controllable functions of the physical device within the VMs. VM-specific configuration parameters and connection information may be maintained for each of the VMs, outside of a VMM, to reconfigure or virtualize the physical device for each of the VMs with the corresponding VM-specific configuration parameters and connection information. Physical device virtualization augmentation features may be implemented within a combination of a physical device controller and a host device driver that executes outside of the VM.