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Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2013
Applicant:

Red Hat Israel, Ltd., Raanana, IL;

Inventors:

Michael S. Tsirkin, Yokneam Yillit, IL;

Gleb Natapov, Raanana, IL;

Assignee:

Red Hat Israel, Ltd., Raanana, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/44 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 9/4426 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for providing a hypercall interface for virtual machines. An example method may comprise receiving, by a hypervisor executing on a computer system, a hypercall instruction issued by a virtual machine to invoke a hypervisor function; and determining an identifier of the hypervisor function based on a value of an instruction pointer of the virtual machine.


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