Hypervisor function sets

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2005-05-10

2005-05-10

An, Meng-Al T. (Department: 2127)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Virtual machine task or process management

C711S006000, C711S203000

Reexamination Certificate

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06892383

ABSTRACT:
A method, system, and apparatus for informing a plurality of operating systems, each assigned to a separate partition within a logically partitioned data processing system, of which functions, provided by a hypervisor for creating and enforcing separation of the logical partitions, are available for use by the operating systems is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the hypervisor includes a plurality of function sets. Each function set includes a list of functions that may be called by any one of the operating systems to perform tasks for the operating systems while maintaining separation between each of the logical partitions. The hypervisor informs each of the plurality of operating systems of an enabled function set. Functions identified within the enabled function set are enabled for use by each of the plurality of operating systems and functions not identified within the enabled function set are disabled for use by each of the plurality of operating systems.

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