Virtual machine control program and virtual machine system

摘要

The program attains compatibility of suppression of an overhead accompanying page exception handling in the case of operating a program whose amount of memory use is large on a virtual machine and suppression of the overhead accompanying page exception handling in the case of operating a first OS that has a function of making another OS run on a virtual machine. A VMM creates a shadow PT (Page Table) for prohibiting reading-writing of privileged memory that requires emulation of reading/writing by using a RSV-bit, and registers the shadow PT and the second PT that a second OS operating on the first OS has in an x86 compatible CPU equipped with page exception detecting function using two PT's. When a page exception occurs, the VMM refers to cause code of the page exception and, when a P field of the cause code is 0, determines immediately that emulation is unnecessary.