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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mark Sheldon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeffrey W. Sheldon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Banack, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01); G06T 2200/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for dynamically using system (i.e., VM guest) memory as video memory for virtual graphics processing units (VGPUs) are provided. In one embodiment, a guest graphics driver running within a virtual machine (VM) of a host system can receive, from a guest application of the VM, a request to create a graphics resource. The guest graphics driver can then dynamically allocate, in response to the request, a memory object for the graphics resource in a guest memory space of the VM.