Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Constructing a UEFI bootloader handoff address space for a physical machine hosting virtual machines
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Application No.: US16519867Application Date: 2019-07-23
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Publication No.: US11340909B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: Andrei Warkentin , Timothy P. Mann , Doug Covelli
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Kim & Stewart LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/4401
- IPC: G06F9/4401 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F9/30

Abstract:
A method of creating a new page table structure after first stage boot operations has completed but before handoff to a hypervisor occurs. Firmware page tables are reused and copied to a region of memory by a first-stage bootloader while the firmware is running, processed to have an expected multi-stage page table structure and desired access rights, and copied again to another region of memory by the first-stage bootloader after the first-stage bootloader has completed its booting operations and after the firmware has been quiesced.
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