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…

BACKGROUND The present disclosure relates generally to microprocessor systems, and more specifically to microprocessor systems that may operate in a trusted or secured environment. Processors may operate in several processor operating modes depending…

BACKGROUND A Virtual Machine (VM) is an efficient, isolated duplicate of a real computer system. More than one VM may be provided concurrently by a single real system. A real system may have a number of resources that it provides to an operating syst…

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…

The prioritization of large memory page mapping is a function of the access bits in the L1 page table. In a first phase of operation, the number of set access bits in each of the L1 page tables is counted periodically and a current count value is cal…

In one embodiment, a method includes transitioning control to a virtual machine (VM) from a virtual machine monitor (VMM), determining that a VMM timer indicator is set to an enabling value, and identifying a VMM timer value configured by the VMM. Th…

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…

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to virtual machine implementations, and in particular to a safe general purpose virtual machine that generates optimized virtual machine computer programs that are executable in a general purp…

BACKGROUND This invention relates to virtual machines. In particular, the invention relates to translation lookaside buffers that support a virtual-machine system. A virtual-machine system is a computer system that includes a virtual machine monitor…

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The invention generally relates to virtual machine management, and more particularly to efficient scheduling of virtual machines using processor state information. Virtualization of machine resources has been of significan…