EXPANSION OF SERVICES FOR A VIRTUAL DATA CENTER GUEST

摘要

One or more services for enhancing guest utilization of a virtual machine and other VDC resources may be provided at the intermediary manager. In an embodiment, the intermediary manager intercepts a hypercall from a guest operating system that is separate from the intermediary manager. The intermediary manager determines that a particular intermediary service is associated with the hypercall and causes execution of service instructions associated with the particular intermediary service. The intermediary manager and guest operating systems may operate within a virtual machine hosted by a host machine and managed by a hypervisor. Embodiments may be useful in any of a virtualized enterprise computer system; a virtual machine infrastructure in a private data center; computing, storage or networking resources in a private cloud; computing, storage or networking resources of cloud service provider; and a hybrid cloud computing environment.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
intercepting, at an intermediary manager from a guest operating system located at the same machine as the intermediary manager, a hypercall directed to a particular hypervisor that is separate from the intermediary manager, wherein the intermediary manager is not the particular hypervisor; determining that a particular intermediary service is associated with the hypercall; causing execution of service instructions associated with the particular intermediary service; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.