US Patent 11748116 Managing virtual services in an information handling system

In one embodiment, a method for method for managing a virtual service in an information handling system includes: identifying, by a virtual image of a plurality of virtual images of the virtual service, a device setting to be modified, the device setting associated with a device of the information handling system, each of the plurality of virtual images having respective device settings; accessing, by a host service, a protected namespace of a plurality of protected namespaces, the protected namespace associated with the virtual image; identifying, by the host service, a device index stored in the protected namespace, the device index pointing to a device-specific function associated with the device, the device-specific function stored in a translation table; accessing, by the host service, the device-specific function stored in the translation table based on the device index; and causing, by the host service, the device-specific function to modify the device setting.