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Real-time scheduling of virtual machines

  • US 7,356,817 B1
  • Filed: 03/31/2000
  • Issued: 04/08/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computerized method for scheduling a plurality of virtual machines comprising:

  • determining a respective resource requirement for each virtual machine comprises communicating said resource requirement from an application running within an operating system running within a respective virtual machine, said application is a resource management application, which dynamically maintains said respective resource requirement;

    determining a respective interrupt period for each virtual machine based on estimating the respective interrupt period for periodic interrupts and converging the respective interrupt period to be substantially equal to actual periods for the periodic interrupts; and

    scheduling said plurality of virtual machines based, at least in part, on said respective resource requirement and interrupt period values.

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