Embodiments include methods, apparatuses, articles, and systems having a
plurality of agents of a plurality of virtual machines of a physical
device. In various embodiments, first and second agents of first and
second virtual machines are adapted to cooperate to ensure that a port of
the physical device is listened to by only a first application of the
first virtual machine and by the second agent of the second virtual
machine. Also, the first and second agents are further adapted to
cooperate to facilitate the first application and a second application of
the second virtual machine in communicating with each other in a
network-like manner.