Accelerator system with support for virtual machines

摘要

The system (10) has a resource management device (12) for separation of virtual machines (14). An acceleration device (18) e.g. automatic-virtualizing or virtualized hardware accelerator or coprocessor, includes an input buffer memory (20), an output buffer memory (22) and a processing device (24). The input and output buffer memories include buffer memory devices (26), which are associated to the virtual machines. Forwarding regions (16) are formed by the resource management device, and allow access of the virtual machine to the associated buffer memories. An independent claim is also included for a method for operating a computer system for obtaining a desired system functionality.