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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Duane K. Beyer, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Eli M. Dow, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Frank R. Lefevre, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Inventors:
Duane K. Beyer, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Eli M. Dow, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Frank R. LeFevre, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for simulating a hardware failure in a virtualization environment includes determining a location of an instruction pointer for a particular operating system operating in the virtualization environment; determining an address of a memory location containing an invalid instruction; and writing the address of the memory location containing the invalid instruction in the location of the instruction pointer.