Method and apparatus for managing virtual addresses
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsKoichi Yamada, Felix Leung, Amy Santoni, Asit Mallick, Rohit Seth, Gary Hammond
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Abstract
A method for managing virtual memory addresses includes associating a guest identifier (ID) with a virtual machine accessing a virtual memory address. A physical memory address is retrieved corresponding to the virtual memory address utilizing the guest ID. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims21
A method for managing virtual memory addresses, comprising:
- associating a guest identifier (ID) with a virtual machine (VM) accessing a virtual memory address;
- and
- retrieving a physical memory address corresponding to the virtual memory address utilizing the guest ID.
An article of manufacture comprising a machine accessible medium including sequences of instructions, the sequences of instructions including instructions which when executed cause the machine to perform:
- associating a guest identifier (ID) with a virtual machine (VM) accessing a virtual memory address;
- and
- retrieving a physical memory address corresponding to the virtual memory address utilizing the guest ID.
A computer system, comprising:
- a bus;
- a memory;
- and
- a processor implementing an address translator to retrieve a physical memory address corresponding to a virtual memory address utilizing a guest identifier (ID) associated with a virtual machine accessing the virtual memory address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.