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Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Red Hat Israel, Ltd., Raanana, IL;

Inventors:

Michael Tsirkin, Yokneam Yillit, IL;

Stephen Tweedie, Edinburgh, GB;

Assignee:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 13/404 (2013.01); G06F 13/4234 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for deferred assignment of devices in virtual machine migration. An example method comprises: starting, by a processing device of a first host computer system, a virtual machine being migrated from a second host computer system in a post-copy migration mode; receiving a request to associate an input/output (I/O) device with the virtual machine; and responsive to receiving, from the second host computer system, one or more memory pages comprised by a memory buffer associated with the I/O device, performing at least one of: associating an identifier of the I/O device with the memory buffer or allowing the virtual machine to access the I/O device.


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