Patent ID: 8230077

Claim:
A method of communicating between a hardware management console and a logical partition of a logically partitioned data processing system, the method comprising: utilizing a hypervisor pipe in directly communicating between the hardware management console and the logical partition, the hypervisor pipe comprising a point-to-point, logical communications session through a hypervisor of the data processing system between the hardware management console and the logical partition, the utilizing comprising: packaging by a source endpoint a request or a response of the source endpoint as cargo in a generic transport primitive to be forwarded via the hypervisor pipe, the source endpoint being one of the hardware management console or the logical partition of the data processing system, wherein the hardware management console is a user interface for partition management; and forwarding the generic transport primitive directly from the source endpoint to a target endpoint via the hypervisor pipe, wherein the forwarding comprises receiving by the hypervisor the generic transport primitive packaged at the source endpoint and forwarding the cargo of the generic transport primitive to the target endpoint, the cargo comprising the request or the response of the source endpoint, and wherein the receiving and the forwarding by the hypervisor are absent inspecting or parsing of the cargo by the hypervisor, and the target endpoint is the other one of the logical partition or the hardware management console of the data processing system.