Placing virtual machine monitor (VMM) code in guest context...

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra – Event handling or event notification

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C718S001000, C710S260000

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08032897

ABSTRACT:
In one embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining use of one or more pages in a guest physical address space of a guest; storing handler code to process one or more input/output (I/O) and/or interrupt events in the one or more pages; and redirecting a first event of the one or more I/O events from guest handler code that would process the first event to the handler code in the one or more pages. Also contemplated is a computer accessible medium comprising a plurality of instructions, which, when executed by a computer, implement the method.

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