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Apparatus and method for providing private and shared access to host address and data spaces by guest programs in a virtual machine computer system

US5230069A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 2, 1990
Grant dateJul 20, 1993
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Expiry dateOct 2, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F12/0292
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing common access to data spaces by a plurality of virtual machine guests emulated on a host computer system. A token received from a given one of the virtual machine guests is used to identify a particular host data space. The guest also supplies an offset. The offset and the identified host data space are then used to derive a host absolute address representative of a data location in the host data space.

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