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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Matthew Ray Delco, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The current document is directed to methods and subsystems for communication between virtualization layers and guest operating systems. A hardware baseboard management controller ('BMC') provides an out-of-band communications link and management interface to a computer system that can be accessed by a system administrator through a remote console. A virtualization layer may provide a virtualized BMC ('vBMC') that provides a data-and-command-exchange medium between a guest operating system and the virtualization layer. The virtualization layer may transmit commands, query status and configuration information, and transfer data through this data-and-command-exchange medium to the guest operating system.