Patent ID: 8732700

Claim:
A method of providing remote control to a virtualization system, the virtualization system comprising a computer having virtualization software executing on the computer and one or more virtual machines executing on the computer by way of the virtualization software, each of the virtual machines having a guest operating system, the method comprising: receiving over a network connection a plurality of logical channels of a multi-channel remote control protocol at a first domain of a plurality of domains of the virtualization system, each of the logical channels conveying information corresponding to one of the domains for controlling a function in one of the domains via a remote client; for each logical channel, identifying the corresponding domain; for each of the logical channels corresponding to a domain other than the first domain, forwarding the information conveyed in the logical channel to the corresponding domain for controlling the function in the corresponding domain; and for the logical channel corresponding to the first domain, processing information conveyed in the logical channel in the first domain to apply the function in the first domain, wherein the first domain is a virtual machine domain of the one or more of the virtual machines and the corresponding domain is a virtualization layer domain.