US Patent Issued to VMware on July 15 for "Loading management hypervisors from user space" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,795, issued on July 15, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Loading management hypervisors from user space" was invented by Andrei Warkentin (South Elgin, Ill.) and Sunil Kotian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various examples of loading management hypervisors from user space. In some examples, a host device executes a first stage bootloader of a management hypervisor from within a host operating system. The first stage bootloader loads management hypervisor data and handoff instructions into a memory of the host device, and invokes a kernel execute call of the host operating system. The ha...