Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Event notification support for nested virtual machines
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Application No.: US16943636Application Date: 2020-07-30
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Publication No.: US11748136B2Publication Date: 2023-09-05
- Inventor: Michael Tsirkin , Karen Lee Noel
- Applicant: Red Hat, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NC Raleigh
- Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Raleigh
- Agency: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/54 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F12/0802

Abstract:
Systems and methods for event notification support for nested virtual machines. An example method may comprise running, by a host computer system, a Level 0 hypervisor managing a Level 1 virtual machine running a Level 1 hypervisor, wherein the Level 1 hypervisor manages a Level 2 virtual machine. The Level 1 hypervisor may generate a virtual device and an input/output (I/O) translation table comprising an I/O translation table entry associated with the virtual device, and associate the I/O translation table entry with a Level 1 virtual machine context maintained by at least one of the Level 0 hypervisor or Level 1 hypervisor. The method may further responsive to detecting, by the Level 0 hypervisor, an event notification from the Level 2 virtual machine, cause a central processing unit (CPU) to use the I/O translation table to execute access to the Level 1 guest virtual address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220035649A1 EVENT NOTIFICATION SUPPORT FOR NESTED VIRTUAL MACHINES Public/Granted day:2022-02-03
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