| 摘要 |
The present invention is directed to computer systems, methods and/or hardware where one or more guest operating systems exchange instructions with the processing hardware (see DEFINITIONS section) through a controller kernel. Even though the instructions are exchanged through the controller kernel, rather than directly between the OS and the processing hardware, the controller kernel does not change the instructions out of native form. The controller kernel refrains from virtualizing or emulating the instructions. For this reason, the controller kernel cannot be considered to be and/or include middleware, a hypervisor or VMM. The use of the controller kernel can be helpful in computer systems with multiple guest OS's because it allows multiple containerized OS's to simultaneously run on a single set of processing hardware. For example, the multiple containerized OS's can be used to run multiple terminals. The use of the controller kernel may also be useful even if there is a single guest operating system. For example, a LINUX controller kernel has been found to speed up the operation of the Windows Vista operating system running as the guest OS, relative to the speed of Windows Vista running directly on the same processing hardware in the conventional way.
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