Abstract: A virtual machine control method for a supercomputer enables a plurality of virtual machines to use a vector processor. Control of the use of the vector processor is through the scalar processor. When a virtual machine requires use of the vector processor, it is first determined whether one of the other virtual machines operating systems is using the vector processor. If not, the scalar processor is dispatched to the operating system requesting use of the vector processor. If another virtual machine operating system is using the vector processor, then the operating system requesting use of the vector processor is placed in a wait state until the vector processor becomes free, whereupon the scalar processor is dispatched to the operating system that had been in the wait state. The condition of the vector processor being free can be communicated directly to the scalar processor without the intervention of the virtual machine monitor.

Abstract: In order to carry out address translation which can reduce an overhead of the VMCP to support a virtual storage, a flag indicating a common segment in the virtual machine and a system identifier are held in a TLB, and a VM identifier is held in a segment table origin stack. For the common segment, a current VM identifier is compared with the VM identifier in the segment table origin stack to determine validity of a TLB entry, and for a non-common segment, a system identifier read from the segment table origin stack is compared with the system identifier in the TLB entry to determine validity of the TLB entry.