Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system to partition hardware resources between operating systems. A determination is made whether a first PCI resource attached to a line of a bus is to be sequestered to a service operating system (OS). If so, the first PCI resource is sequestered to the service OS. It is next determined whether at least one other PCI resource shares the same line of the bus as the sequestered first PCI resource. If so, the at least one other PCI resource is selected and sequestered to the service OS. The first PCI resource and the other sequestered PCI resource are then hidden from a subsequently loaded host OS.

Abstract: Authentication from a first independently authenticable communication link may be “transferred” to a second unauthenticable communication link and thereby used for authentication in the second communication link.

Abstract: An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to enable execution of a first application on a master device by allocating a master license and at least one shareable license to the master device, and to enable execution of a second application (which may be the same as the first application) on a shareable device by executing the first application on the master device and by allocating the at least one shareable license to the shareable device.