Techniques are disclosed for increasing the security of a system where incoming network packets are directly placed into the memory space of a virtual machine (VM) operating system (OS) running on the system via direct memory access (DMA). In an embodiment, each packet is split into a first portion,...http://www.google.ca/patents/US7966620?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7966620 - Secure network optimizations when receiving data directly in a virtual machine's memory address space
