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US 2015/0040130 A1Published application
Virtual high privilege mode for a system management request
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsValiuddin Y. Ali, Jose Paulo Xavier Pires, James M. Mann, Boris Balacheff, Chris I. Dalton
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Abstract
A computing system and a method of handling a system management request. The computing system includes a virtual high-privilege mode in a trusted domain managed by the virtual machine monitor. The virtual high-privilege mode handles the system management request.
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A computing system comprising:
- a processor;
- a virtual machine monitor to manage a trusted domain;
- and
- a virtual high-privilege mode in the trusted domain to handle a system management request.
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A method of handling system management requests in a computing system comprising:
- managing, by a virtual machine monitor, a trusted domain for a virtual high-privilege mode to receive a system management request;
- preventing the system management request from initiating a system management mode;
- and
- handling the system management request in a virtual high-privilege mode environment.
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A computer readable medium comprising code that if executed by a processor causes a computing system to:
- manage a trusted domain with a virtual machine monitor;
- receive a system management request by a virtual high-privilege mode environment in the trusted domain;
- prevent the system management request from initiating a system management mode;
- and
- handling the system management request in the virtual high-privilege mode environment.
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