METHOD FOR OPERATING VIRTUAL MACHINES ON A VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM AND CORRESPONDING VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM

A method for operating virtual machines on a virtualization platform, the method comprising: embedding, preferably by a toolstack of the virtualization platform, control information in a predetermined memory area of a front-end virtual machine where at least one virtual device is to be initialized, wherein said control information is required for initiating a communication with a back-end virtual machine where at least one back-end driver runs; retrieving, by the front-end virtual machine, said control information from said predetermined memory area of the front-end virtual machine; and performing the communication between the front-end virtual machine and the back-end virtual machine via a direct communication channel in order to exchange information for initializing said at least one virtual device of the front-end virtual machine, in particular by communicating with said at least one back-end driver via said direct communication channel, wherein said direct communication channel is established based on said control information embedded in said predetermined memory area of the front-end virtual machine. Furthermore, a corresponding virtualization platform is disclosed.