Patent ID: 11960357
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
at a time of performing a live migration of a virtual machine (VM) from a source host system to a destination host system, receiving, by a destination hypervisor running on the destination host system, a live migration payload packet from a source hypervisor running on the source host system, the live migration payload packet including error metadata for a guest memory page of the VM that indicates the guest memory page is at least partially corrupted; and
upon completion of the live migration:
initiating, by the destination hypervisor, execution of a migrated copy of the VM on the destination host system;
trapping, by the destination hypervisor, a memory access to the guest memory page during the execution of the migrated copy of the VM; and
in response to the trapping, raising, by the destination hypervisor, a virtual memory exception to a guest operating system (OS) of the migrated copy of the VM, the virtual memory exception informing the guest OS that the guest memory page is at least partially corrupted.