On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:09:17PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 10/10/2011 01:04 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >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. > > Note that the guest can generate the buffer before it crashes. >
Thanks. The contents seem to be undocumented (stubbed in reactos). I did find a link to a tool made for Xen, but it mentions being broken with Windows 2003 (where KeInitializeCrashDumpHeader was introduced). http://www.osronline.com/showThread.CFM?link=203490 > Paolo >
