Mechanism for providing power management through virtualization

Details Mechanism for providing power management through virtualization Mechanism for providing power management through virtualization

2007-05-29

2007-05-29

Bullock, Jr., Lewis A. (Department: 2195)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual mac

Virtual machine task or process management

C713S300000, C713S320000, C713S323000, C713S340000, C709S223000, C709S226000

Reexamination Certificate

active

09752586

ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment, a method for providing power management via virtualization includes monitoring the utilization of a host platform device by one or more virtual machines and managing power consumption of the host platform device based on the results of monitoring.

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