US 2006/0242229 A1 · Method and system for virtual service isolation

Abstract

A method of managing resources in a host computer includes generating a virtual service provider in two different computer partitions and linking them in a serial manner. The virtual service providers are associated with a computer resource. Virtual service clients in different partitions may use the virtual service provider software to access the related computer resources. The virtual service providers provide a transparent interface to the associated hardware. Virtual service clients can use the combination of series computer resource functions or can access the a lesser number of the series connected virtual service providers. Fault tolerance can be built into the scheme using multiple virtual service providers located in different partitions accessible to virtual service clients using a failover control technique.

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Dependent claims

A method of managing resources in a host computer, the method comprising:

generating a second partition from a first partition, the second partition comprising a first instance of virtual service provider software that links instances of virtual service client software to a host computer resource;
assigning a first computer resource to the virtual service provider software of the second partition;
offering access to the first computer resource to a first instance of virtual service client software through the first instance of virtual service provider software;
wherein the first partition can control the operation of the second partition to perform one or more of update, repair and reconstruction of the second partition.

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A method of managing resources in a host computer, the method comprising:

generating a first instance of virtual service provider software for assignment with a first computer resource;
generating a first instance of virtual service client software which is served resources by the first instance of virtual service provider software;
generating a second instance of virtual service provider software, the first instance of the virtual service client software serving resources to the second instance of virtual service provider software;
assigning a second computer resource to the second instance of the virtual service provider software;
and
generating a second instance of virtual service client software, the second instance of virtual service client software being served resources by the second instance of virtual service provider software;
wherein the second instance of virtual service client software accesses a chain of functionality.

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A computer system for managing resources in a virtual machine, the system comprising:

a first instance of virtual service provider software serving resources to a first instance of virtual service client software, the first instance of virtual service provider software being associated with a first computer resource;
a second instance of virtual service provider software which is associated with a second computer resource and being served resources by the first instance of virtual service client software;
and
a second instance of virtual service client software being served resources by the second instance of virtual service provider software;
wherein the second instance of virtual service client software has access to a chain of functionality.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Method and system for virtual service isolation

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Abstract

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