US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Oct. 28 for "Passing single-root input-output virtualization functions to nested virtual machines" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,760, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Passing single-root input-output virtualization functions to nested virtual machines" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Single-root input-output virtualization (SR-IOV) can be enabled for nested virtual machines using mapping. In one example, a host hypervisor can assign at least two guest virtual functions to a guest virtual machine such that each guest virtual function maps to a respective host virtual function executed by a SR-IOV device. The first guest virtual function of the at least two guest virtual functions c...