Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20090119493
Filing Date: March 27, 2008Priority Date: November 06, 2007
Inventors: Ganesh Venkitachalam, Michael Nelson, Boris Weissman, Min Xu, Vyacheslav V. Malyugin
Assignee(s): VMWARE, INC.
Current U.S. Classification: 712, 712/238000, 718, 718/001000
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A method for logging non-deterministic events of a virtual machine executing a sequence guest instructions, the method comprising:tracking an execution point in the sequence of executing guest instructions, the tracking of the execution point comprising determining a branch count of executed branch instructions; anddetecting an occurrence of a non-deterministic event directed to the virtual machine during the execution of the sequence of guest instructions, and recording information which comprises an identifier of a current execution point, wherein the identifier includes the branch count.
Patent/Application # 20060167916
Description
External events logging method in distributed computer network, involves initiating external event for logged process upon receiving external message and transmitting message data to process after logging initiated event
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