Patent ID: 8365020

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: associating, by a hypervisor that virtualizes a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) on a host machine, each VM of the plurality of VMs with a crash dump disk that is solely dedicated to the VM, wherein each crash dump disk is located separate from its associated VM and separate from operating system (OS) files of its associated VM; configuring, by the hypervisor, an OS of each VM with a crash file path to the crash dump disk associated with the VM; configuring, by the hypervisor, each VM of the plurality of VMs to: generate crash dump files for the VM upon a crash event of the VM; and store, via the crash file path, the generated crash dump files to the crash dump disk associated with the VM; identifying, by the hypervisor, a crashed VM of the plurality of VMs that experienced a crash event; stopping, by the hypervisor, operations of the crashed VM; and obtaining, by the hypervisor from the crash dump disk associated with the crashed VM, a crash dump file created by the crashed VM that details the crash event.