a is ready to send information with the use of the sctp protocol the packet is sent to operating system b operating system b invokes the protocol specific send using sctp and transmits the packet out when a reply to the packet arrives the virtualization capability in operating system b receives it and sends it to operating system a in an alternative embodiment a system for exporting a unique operating system feature the system for exporting comprising a plurality of logical partitions wherein a first logical partition of the plurality of logical partitions has a first operating system wherein the first operating system having the unique operating system feature wherein a second logical partition of the plurality of logical partitions has a second operating system a hypervisor for providing a virtualization platform to run a plurality of operating systems concurrently and for controlling access of each of the plurality of logical partitions to hardware resources of the system for exporting wherein the hypervisor communicates with each of the plurality of logical partitions wherein a facilitator module in the first operating system communicating with the hypervisor wherein the facilitator module sends a first notification to the hypervisor about the unique operating system feature and the hypervisor maintains a record of the first notification associated with the first logical partition wherein a transporter module in a kernel space of the second operating system communicating with the hypervisor wherein the transporter module queries the hypervisor for available.