Virtual Machine Interface

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Virtual Machine Interface^[1] ("VMI") may refer to a communication protocol for running parallel programs on a distributed memory system.

Virtual Machine Interface^[2] is also the name given by VMware to the proposed open standard protocol that guest operating systems can use to communicate with the hypervisor of a virtual machine. An implementation of this standard was merged in the main Linux kernel version 2.6.21. A number of popular GNU/Linux distributions now ship with VMI support enabled by default.

[edit] References

1. ^ Official web site
2. ^ Transparent Paravirtualisation - VMware Inc

[edit] External links

• The VMI virtualization interface - article in lwn.net