BACKGROUND Standard computer interconnects, particularly for personal computers or workstations, may employ a bus such as Peripheral Component Interconnect ("PCI"), Industry Standard Architecture ("ISA"), or Extended ISA ("EISA&qu…

BACKGROUND A single physical platform may be segregated into a plurality of virtual networks. Here, the physical platform incorporates at least one virtual machine monitor (VMM). A conventional VMM typically runs on a computer and presents to other s…

A system and method for providing dynamic device virtualization is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, the computer-implemented method includes providing a hypervisor and one or more guest virtual machines (VMs). Each guest VM is disposed…

BACKGROUND As processing resources have increased, demands to run multiple software programs and operating systems on a single microprocessor have also increased. To meet these demands virtual environments have been developed to allocate a single com…

BACKGROUND 1. Field Innovations herein pertain to computer virtualization, computer security and/or data isolation, and/or the use of a separation kernel hypervisor (and/or hypervisor), such as to detect and/or prevent malicious code and which may in…

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/max2/max2_mii51009.pdf The open-drain pin never drives high, only low or tri-state. When the open-drain pin is active, it drives low. When the open-drain pin is inactive, the pin is tri-stated and the trace pulls u…

BACKGROUND A virtual machine (VM) architecture logically partitions a physical machine, such that the underlying hardware of the machine is time-shared and appears as one or more independently operation virtual machines. A computer platform in a virt…

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A virtual machine (VM) may be or include a framework or environment created by for example a virtual machine monitor (VMM) on a host system. A VMM may provide facilities or resources on a host environment for an applicatio…

BACKGROUND Generally, the concept of virtualization in information processing systems allows multiple instances of one or more operating systems (each, an "OS") to run on a single information processing system, even though each OS is designed to…

BACKGROUND INFORMATION An embodiment of the present invention relates generally to virtualization platforms and, more specifically, to a system and method to run components of a virtual machine monitor at a reduced privilege level. Various mechanisms…