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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Xunjia Lu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Xavier Deguillard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mukund Gunti, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vishnu Sekhar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 1/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 1/24 (2013.01); G06F 9/442 (2013.01); G06F 9/4403 (2013.01); G06F 9/4406 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer system is rebooted upon crash without running platform firmware and without retrieving all of the modules included in a boot image from an external source and reloading them into system memory. The reboot process includes the steps of stopping and resetting all of the processing units, except one of the processing units that detected the crash event, selecting the one processing unit to execute a reboot operation, and executing the reboot operation to reboot the computer system.