Re: [libvirt-users] External Snapshots vs Core Dump.

2018-11-26 Thread Peter Krempa
[please don't top-post on technical lists] On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 19:03:02 +0530, Tanmoy Sinha wrote: > Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Currently I am taking a dump of > the memory with the virsh dump ‘live’ flag and taking the snapshot with the > memory file pointed to /dev/null, with

Re: [libvirt-users] External Snapshots vs Core Dump.

2018-11-26 Thread Tanmoy Sinha
Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. Currently I am taking a dump of the memory with the virsh dump ‘live’ flag and taking the snapshot with the memory file pointed to /dev/null, without even pausing the guest. I don’t have a use case to restore from the snapshot snapshot so hopefully this ap

Re: [libvirt-users] External Snapshots vs Core Dump.

2018-11-26 Thread Peter Krempa
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 20:08:13 +0530, Tanmoy Sinha wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to get a clear picture on external snapshots memory dump ( > i.e. system-checkpoint) vs dumping the memory of the guest. I have created > external snapshots which produces a disk file and a memory file. I am not > a

[libvirt-users] External Snapshots vs Core Dump.

2018-11-23 Thread Tanmoy Sinha
Hi, I would like to get a clear picture on external snapshots memory dump ( i.e. system-checkpoint) vs dumping the memory of the guest. I have created external snapshots which produces a disk file and a memory file. I am not able to use this memory file in any memory analysis tools, for instance v