Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110197190 | VIRTUALIZATION METHOD AND VIRTUAL MACHINE - There is a need for providing the Xeon CPU with a two-level VM that is independent of VMM types and prevents the throughput from degrading when the OS operates the privilege register. A machine is provided with a processor and memory. The machine includes a first virtual machine manager for managing a virtual machine, a second virtual machine for managing an operating system, first management information, and second management information. The processor is provided with a register and a shadowing function. The machine uses a virtualization method. The first virtual machine manager detects a call from the second virtual machine manager. The first virtual machine manager enables the shadowing function when it is determined that an instruction for enabling the shadowing function caused the call. | 08-11-2011 |
20110271152 | FAILURE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND COMPUTER - A failure management method for a computer including a processor, and a memory connected to the processor, and in which the processor containing a memory protection function, executes a first software program and a second software program monitoring the operation of the first software program, and the second software program retains error information including address information and access-related information; and the method implemented by the by the second software program includes a step for detecting the occurrence of errors in the memory; and a step for prohibiting access to the address of the memory where the error occurred, and monitoring the access state; and a step for executing the failure processing when accessing by the first software program of the address of the memory where the error occurred was detected. | 11-03-2011 |
20120198446 | Computer System and Control Method Therefor - A hypervisor records error device information in a virtual PCI bridge, and makes error information in a device consistent with error information in a PCI bridge. A computer system includes a CPU, memory, and physical device PCI tree. In the memory, virtual machines capable of mutually independently acting, and a hypervisor that manages the virtual machines are existent. The physical device PCI tree includes physical bridges and devices. The physical bridge has a register in which information specifying the device is recorded. The virtual machine includes a virtual CPU, virtual memory, and virtual device PCI tree. The virtual device tree includes virtual bridges and virtual devices. The virtual bridge has a virtual memory space in which information specifying the virtual device in which an error has occurred is recorded. The hypervisor includes an interrupt handling program that is a virtual bridge modification program which modifies information in the virtual bridge. | 08-02-2012 |
20120246644 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF VIRTUAL COMPUTER - A method of controlling a virtual machine of a computer, the computer comprising: a physical machine comprising an I/O adapter having a physical function that creates a virtual function; a virtualization unit that provides computer resources of the physical machine to the virtual machine; and an OS that is executed on the virtual machine, the virtualization unit creating a virtual machine to which the virtual function is assigned, the virtual machine running the OS thereon, the method comprising: a first step of detecting, by the virtualization unit, a state change of the I/O adapter; a second step of identifying, by the virtualization unit, when a state of the I/O adapter becomes a predetermined state, the virtual machine to which the virtual function is assigned; and a third step of notifying, by the virtualization unit, the OS running on the identified virtual machine of the state of the I/O adapter. | 09-27-2012 |
20130086583 | Method and Computer for Controlling Virtual Machine - A virtual machine booting method for booting a virtual machine, the virtual machine comprising: a physical computer which includes a processor, a memory, and storage; and a virtualization module which assigns computer resources of the physical computer to the virtual machine, the method comprising: setting, by the virtualization module, before the virtual machine is booted, states of a first access path and a second access path which couple the virtual machine and the storage; booting the virtual machine by the virtualization module; determining, by the virtualization module, when to switch between the first access path and the second access path; and switching the first access path to the second access path when the virtualization module determines that it is time to switch between the first access path and the second access path. | 04-04-2013 |
20130247056 | VIRTUAL MACHINE CONTROL METHOD AND VIRTUAL MACHINE - A virtual machine control method and a virtual machine having the dual objectives of utilizing NIC on a virtual machine that creates sub-virtual machines operated by a VMM on virtual machines generated by a hypervisor to avoid software copying by the VMM and to prevent band deterioration during live migration or adding sub-virtual machines. In a virtual machine operating plural virtualization software on a physical machine including a CPU, memory, and multi-queue NIC; a virtual multi-queue NIC is loaded in the virtual machine, for virtual queues included in the virtual multi-queue NIC, physical queues configuring the multi-queue NIC are assigned to virtual queues where usage has started, and the physical queues are allowed direct access to the virtual machine memory. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254767 | COMPUTER AND BANDWIDTH CONTROL METHOD - A computer with a processor, memory, and one or more network interfaces, the computer having a virtualization management unit for managing a virtual computer and a bandwidth control unit for controlling a bandwidth in use in a virtual computer group comprised of one or more virtual computers, in which the virtualization management unit contains an analysis unit for managing a bandwidth in use of virtual network interfaces allocated to the virtual computers, the analysis unit measures the bandwidth in use of the each virtual computer, determines whether there exists a first virtual computer group whose bandwidth in use is smaller than a guaranteed bandwidth, and commands to control the bandwidth of a second virtual computer group whose bandwidth in use is larger than the guaranteed bandwidth, and the bandwidth control unit secures a free bandwidth just equal to a shortage of the guaranteed bandwidth of the first virtual computer group. | 09-26-2013 |
20130275972 | VIRTUAL MACHINE, VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VIRTUAL MACHINE - In an exemplary computing machine of the invention, a shared IO device used by a first virtual machine and the second virtual machine includes a physical IO device and a virtual IO device controlled by the physical IO device. In the case of detecting that the first driver has transmitted a stop signal for stopping the physical IO device, a hypervisor keeps the stop signal from being transmitted to the shared IO device, determines whether or not a processing request transmitted by the second driver to the virtual IO device has been completed, and stops the physical IO device with the completion of the processing request as a trigger. | 10-17-2013 |
20140059389 | COMPUTER AND MEMORY INSPECTION METHOD - In a memory inspection in a computer installing a x86 CPU, system software related to low-frequent processing is prevented from going down, and the suppression of performance degradation and the avoidance of a reduction in memory capacity by the memory inspection is realized. The computer having a processor, a memory, and an I/O device. The memory stores a system software realizing a system control unit, and an inspection program realizing an inspection unit. The processor has a memory fault notifying unit notifying the system control unit of a fault address. The system control unit includes an adjustment unit that determines whether the inspection program needs to be executed, or not, based on the type of event occurring, plural event processing units processing the event by using different storage areas of the memory, a fault recording unit recording the memory fault, and an event processing unit selector. | 02-27-2014 |