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US 2006/0233168 A1Published application
Virtual bridge
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsSaul Lewites, Ajay Garg
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Abstract
A method and apparatus establish an address of a frame as being associated with a physical device or a virtual device. If the frame is associated with a virtual device, the address of the frame may be established as being associated with a local virtual device or a remote virtual device. Establishing the nature and location of the device may provide routing by a virtual bridge.
Claims30
A method comprising:
- establishing an address of a frame as being associated with a physical device or a virtual device;
- and
- if the frame is associated with a virtual device, establishing the address of the frame as being associated with a local virtual device relative to a virtual bridge or a remote virtual device, to provide routing by the virtual bridge.
An apparatus comprising:
- a controller;
- and
- a virtual machine monitor executable by the controller, the virtual machine monitor operable to direct data flow between a network interface card and a set of virtual machines, the virtual machine monitor having a virtual bridge to make routing decisions, the virtual machine monitor operable to:
- establish an address of a frame as being associated with a physical device or a virtual device;
- and
- if the frame is associated with a virtual device, establish the address of the frame as being associated with a local virtual device relative to a virtual bridge or a remote virtual device, to provide routing by the virtual bridge.
3 more elements
A computer readable medium that stores instructions, which when performed by a machine, cause the machine to:
- establish an address of a frame as being associated with a physical device or a virtual device;
- and
- if the frame is associated with a virtual device, establish the address of the frame as being associated with a local virtual device relative to a virtual bridge or a remote virtual device, to provide routing by the virtual bridge.
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- a network interface;
- a parallel bus to which the processor and the network interface are communicatively coupled;
- and
- a virtual machine monitor executable by the processor, the virtual machine monitor operable to direct data flow between the network interface and a set of virtual devices, the virtual machine monitor having a virtual bridge to make routing decisions, the virtual machine monitor operable to:
- establish an address of a frame as being associated with a physical device or a virtual device;
- and
- if the frame is associated with a virtual device, establish the address of the frame as being associated with a local virtual device or a remote virtual device, to provide routing by a virtual bridge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.