摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To share a physical network interface card (NIC) device among a plurality of virtual machines (VM). <P>SOLUTION: A method for sharing a physical network interface card (NIC) device among a plurality of virtual machines comprises the steps of receiving a client OS request packet by a virtual network interface card (NIC) driver 308 of a client OS 210 running in a client virtual machine 206, adding a block to a transmission queue 506 in a shared memory 504 in a computing system, fetching the block from the transmission queue by a virtual NIC driver 316 of a service OS 216 running in a service virtual machine 214, packaging the block into a service OS request packet, passing the service OS request packet to a service OS network stack component 314 of the service OS, routing the service OS request packet to a physical NIC driver 318 by a bridge driver 502, and transmitting the service OS request packet through a network. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |