US Patent 11068203 NVMe direct virtualization with configurable storage

A system controller, operatively coupled with one or more memory devices, is configured to provide a plurality of virtual memory controllers, wherein each of the plurality of virtual memory controllers is associated with a different portion of the one or more memory devices, and provide a plurality of physical functions, wherein each of the plurality of physical functions corresponds to a different one of the plurality of virtual memory controllers. The system controller further presents the plurality of physical functions to a host computing system over a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) interface, the host computing system to assign each of the plurality of physical functions to a different virtual machine running on the host computing system.