1. A method for simulating a hardware failure in a virtualization environment, the method comprising: 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; receiving a request to fail the virtualization environment from a user system; and writing, based on and after receiving the request to fail the address of the memory location containing the invalid instruction to the location of the instruction pointer; wherein after writing and as a result thereof the virtualization environment stops operating.