A virtual machine control method and a virtual machine system are
disclosed. In the case where a guest program can be operated in a
plurality of address translation modes and the same guest virtual address
is translated into different host real addresses in each address
translation mode, the illegal access to a host real address by illegal
address translation by double registration in the same page table is
avoided, and the address translation mechanism is efficiently operated. A
plurality of host page tables are prepared in the main storage, and one
of the host page tables is selected with the change in address
translation mode of the guest program. The bottom address of the selected
host page table is set in the host page table register thereby to switch
the host page table.