On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:21:53 +0800 qiaonuohan <qiaonuo...@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Hi, all > > The last version is here: > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-01/msg00209.html > > Command 'dump-guest-memory' was introduced to dump guest's memory. But the > vmcore's format is only elf32 or elf64. The message is here: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-04/msg03379.html > > Compared with migration, the missing of compression feature means regression > to 'dump-guest-memory'. So we post these patches to make 'dump-guest-memory' > be > able to dump guest's in kdump-compressed format. Then vmcore can be much > smaller, and easily to be delivered. > > The kdump-compressed format is *linux specific* *linux standard* crash dump > format used in kdump framework. The kdump-compressed format is readable only > with the crash utility, and it can be smaller than the ELF format because of > the compression support. To get more detailed information about > kdump-compressed format, please refer to the following URL: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/makedumpfile/ I did what was requested by Paolo. I applied patches 1 to 12 and will wait for the rework on patch 13.
