Managing Guest Partition Access To Physical Devices

A computing device includes a host, one or more guest partitions, and one or more physical devices. A physical device can be virtualized, at least in part, by the host and made available to the guest partitions. A physical device includes both a control plane and a data plane. The host provides dire...

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Main Authors Huybregts, Christopher L, Hoppert, Hadden Mark
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 13.09.2018
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A computing device includes a host, one or more guest partitions, and one or more physical devices. A physical device can be virtualized, at least in part, by the host and made available to the guest partitions. A physical device includes both a control plane and a data plane. The host provides direct access to at least part of the data plane of a physical device to a guest partition. However, the host virtualizes the control plane of the physical device, exposing a control plane for the physical device to the guest partition that is not the actual control plane of the physical device. Requests to access (e.g., read, write, modify, etc.) the control plane of the physical device are received by the host from the guest partition, and converted as appropriate to the control plane for the physical device.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201715451943