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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2012
Applicant:
Radu Rugina, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Radu Rugina, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 12/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G06F 11/3003 (2013.01); G06F 11/3065 (2013.01); G06F 11/3093 (2013.01); G06F 11/3476 (2013.01); G06F 2201/865 (2013.01);
Abstract
Probes are instrumented into a boot sequence of a computer system to enable probing of the boot sequence. As part of the boot sequence, a value stored in a predetermined storage location within a boot device is read and, if the value indicates that probing of the boot sequence has been enabled, executable code for probing the boot sequence is injected into the boot sequence. Outputs of the probing during the boot process are collected into a buffer and analyzed after the completion of the boot process.