Patent ID: 11954515
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a hardware component;
a first virtual machine including computer readable instructions that when executed cause a processing unit to run a first operating system instance;
a second virtual machine including computer readable instructions that when executed cause the processing unit to run a second operating system instance;
at least one agent adapted to be invoked by the first or second virtual machine;
a hypervisor communicatively coupled with the first and second virtual machines via a first communication path; and
an agent-server executable by a processor to communicate with the at least one agent and to control commands received from one of the first or second virtual machines for controlling the hardware component;
wherein at least one of the first operating system instance and the second operating system instance control the hardware component; and
wherein an IP address of the agent-server is stored in a shared directory implemented by the hypervisor.