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Patent Inventor Names
Michael Haertel0
Mitchell Alsup0
Andrew W. Lueck0
Geoffrey S. Strongin0
Mark D. Hummel0
Date of Patent
November 3, 2009
0Patent Application Number
116236260
Date Filed
January 16, 2007
0Patent Citations Received
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In one embodiment, a system comprises one or more input/output (I/O) devices; an I/O memory management unit (IOMMU) coupled to receive memory requests sourced by the I/O devices and configured to provide address translation for the memory requests; and a virtual machine monitor (VMM) configured to manage one or more virtual machines on the system, wherein the VMM is configured to virtualize the IOMMU, providing one or more virtual IOMMUs for use by one or more virtual machines.
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