1. A storage medium comprising application software that performs one or more operations and that facilitate a conversion of virtual memory addresses to physical memory addresses in a device, said application software comprising: instructions that initialize an application data structure usable by the application software to facilitate the conversion of virtual memory addresses to physical memory addresses in the device; and instructions that store pointers to virtual memory addresses in the application data structure; and instructions that replace the pointers to virtual memory addresses in the application data structure with pointers to physical memory addresses before the execution of a protected application.