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Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2008
Applicants:

Min Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Vyacheslav V. Malyugin, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Jeffrey W. Sheldon, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ganesh Venkitachalam, Mountain View, CA (US);

Boris Weissman, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Min Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Vyacheslav V. Malyugin, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Jeffrey W. Sheldon, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ganesh Venkitachalam, Mountain View, CA (US);

Boris Weissman, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45533 (2013.01);
Abstract

One embodiment is a computer-implemented method of trace collection for a virtual machine that includes: executing a sequence of instructions from an initial state of the virtual machine; accessing an event log of data relating to nondeterministic events, which data includes an execution point; making at least a portion of the data available to the virtual machine when the sequence reaches the execution point; collecting trace information in response to expansion parameters; and storing the trace information in a trace file.


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