On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 12:48:52PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 10/10/2011 12:21 PM, Alon Levy wrote: > >> A core file would be that format - for direct gdb processing. No > >> proprietary re-inventions please. > > > >Just a note: A core file to windows core dump file would be nice for > >windows guest crashes. > > That requires cooperation from a kernel driver in the Windows guest. > The driver must call KeInitializeCrashDumpHeader and write somewhere > the physical address of the buffer.
That won't be suitable for 'virsh dump' then, because we need this to work when the guest OS is in a crashed/non-responsive state, and so we cna't rely on talking to it. Daniel. -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
