Invention Grant
US08387043B2 USB port shared control method in a plurality of virtual machines
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USB端口共享控制方法在多个虚拟机中
- Patent Title: USB port shared control method in a plurality of virtual machines
- Patent Title (中): USB端口共享控制方法在多个虚拟机中
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Application No.: US12359441Application Date: 2009-01-26
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Publication No.: US08387043B2Publication Date: 2013-02-26
- Inventor: Youji Tanaka , Yukari Hatta , Hideaki Toufuku
- Applicant: Youji Tanaka , Yukari Hatta , Hideaki Toufuku
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP.
- Priority: JP2008-027761 20080207
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/46

Abstract:
A USB port shared control method executed by a hypervisor controlling port sharing among virtual machines and having a physical USB host controller including a physical register, the virtual machines each including a virtual USB host controller having a virtual register. The method includes performing sharing by: selectively allocating the physical register to the virtual register of a subject virtual USB host controller provided in a subject virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines to occupy and unitize the USB port by the subject virtual machine, and directly reading or writing of the physical register by the subject virtual machine via the subject virtual USB host controller, to thereby allow the subject virtual USB host controller to directly control the physical USB host controller. More particularly, the allocating, reading and writing are switched from subject virtual machine to subject virtual machines to facilitate sharing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090204965A1 USB PORT SHARED CONTROL METHOD Public/Granted day:2009-08-13
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