COMPUTING PLATFORM HAVING TRANSPARENT ACCESS TO RESOURCES OF A HOST PLATFORM

• US 20070271557A1
• Filed: 07/31/2007
• Published: 11/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nile Geisinger
• Original Assignee: Nile Geisinger
• Inventors: Geisinger, Nile
• Application Number:
  US11/831,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20070271557A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/163
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45537 Provision of facilities of other operating environments, e.g. WINE I/O emulation G06F13/105

Abstract

A computing platform having transparent access to resources of a host platform is described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a computing system includes, but is not limited to, a virtual operating system (VOS) including a VOS kernel and a virtual machine (VM) with a first library on the virtual operating system, a host operating system (HOS) including a HOS kernel and a second library, and a communication channel established with the first library and the VM that directly couples the first library and the second library. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.

Claims

1. A computer system, comprising:

a virtual operating system (VOS) including a VOS kernel and a virtual machine (VM) with a first library on the virtual operating system;

a host operating system (HOS) including a HOS kernel and a second library; and

a communication channel established with the first library and the VM that directly couples the first library and the second library.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the first and second libraries dispatches calls to a remainder of the first and second libraries through a virtual device of the VM.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the first and second libraries dispatches calls to a remainder of the first and second libraries through jitting the calls through the VM.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second libraries comprises code that can be used to create an application that has a look and feel of the host operating system.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein an application of the VOS uses the first library to dispatch calls to the second library to access resources of the HOS.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein an application running on the VOS uses a graphical user interface of the HOS to enable the application of the VOS to have a substantially identical appearance and interaction as an application of the HOS.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein an application running on the VOS uses the first library to dispatch calls to the second library to enable the application of the VOS to have substantially the same appearance and interaction as an application of the HOS.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the VM is one of a system emulator, a virtual private server, an application virtual operating system, and a hypervisor.

9. A method for enabling the execution of a virtual operating system application comprising:

establishing a communication channel between a first library on a virtual operating system (VOS) and a virtual machine (VM) that the virtual operating system runs on;

coupling a first library on the VOS directly to a second library on a host operating system using the communication channel; and

dispatching calls to at least one of the first library and the second library using the communication channel.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein one of the first and second libraries dispatches calls to a remainder of the first and second libraries through a virtual device of the VM.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein one of the first and second libraries dispatches calls to a remainder of the first and second libraries through jitting the calls through the VM.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein at least one of the first and second libraries comprises code that can be used to create an application that has a look and feel of the host operating system.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein an application of the VOS uses the first library to dispatch calls to the second library to access resources of the HOS.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein an application running on the VOS uses a graphical user interface of the HOS to enable the application of the VOS to have a substantially identical appearance and interaction as an application of the HOS.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein an application running on the VOS uses the first library to dispatch calls to the second library to enable the application of the VOS to have substantially the same appearance and interaction as an application of the HOS.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the VM is one of a system emulator, a virtual private server, an application virtual operating system, and a hypervisor.

17. A machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a method for enabling the execution of a virtual operating system application, the method comprising:

establishing a communication channel between a first library on a virtual operating system (VOS) and a virtual machine (VM) that the virtual operating system runs on;

coupling a first library on the VOS directly to a second library on a host operating system using the communication channel; and

dispatching calls to at least one of the first library and the second library using the communication channel.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein one of the first and second libraries dispatches calls to a remainder of the first and second libraries through a virtual device of the VM.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein one of the first and second libraries dispatches calls to a remainder of the first and second libraries through jitting the calls through the VM.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein at least one of the first and second libraries comprises code that can be used to create an application that has a look and feel on the host operating system.