Inventors:
Adhyas Avasthi - Fremont CA, US
Sreekumar Ramakrishnan Nair - San Jose CA, US
Weidong Shi - Pearland TX, US
Timothy Youngjin Sohn - Mountain View CA, US
Cynthia Kuo - Mountain View CA, US
Rachel Beth Hinman - Mountain View CA, US
Quinn Able Jacobson - Sunnyvale CA, US
Assignee:
NOKIA CORPORATION - Espoo
International Classification:
G06F 9/50, G06F 9/455
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are provided for providing a virtual machine with dynamic direct assignment of a physical hardware resource. A method may include providing a virtual machine with a directly assigned physical hardware resource and an emulated hardware resource corresponding to the directly assigned physical hardware resource. The method may further include causing the virtual machine to hot-swap from using the directly assigned physical hardware resource to using the emulated hardware resource. The method may additionally include, subsequent to causing the virtual machine to hot-swap to using the emulated hardware resource, causing the directly assigned physical hardware resource to be hot-removed from the virtual machine Corresponding apparatuses are also provided.