Patent ID: 9697023
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for using a resource of a hardware platform including a plurality of virtual machines, comprising the steps of: executing, on the hardware platform, a virtualization controller for administering the plurality of virtual machines; executing a first machine of the plurality of virtual machines and including a first operating system separately on at least a first processor core, the first operating system including a para-virtualized first driver for accessing a resource; executing a number of further virtual machines on at least one further processor core, one of the number of further virtual machines comprising a service machine including a second driver for accessing the resource; directing requests by the para-virtualized first driver to access the resource to the second driver, said requests by the para-virtualized first driver occurring without interacting with the virtualization controller such that real-time processing is uninterrupted; and converting, by the second driver, the requests into access operations to the resource.