On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 09:27:52AM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
Hi

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On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 01:09:09PM +0100, marcandre.lur...@redhat.com wrote:
>From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
>
>Starting from qemu 2.11, the `-device vmcoreinfo` will create a fw_cfg
>entry for a guest to store dump details, necessary to process kernel
>dump with KASLR enabled and providing additional kernel details.
>
>Since the device is a singleton and shouldn't use additional hardware
>resources, I decided to map this to a <feature> element in the libvirt
>domain XML. Feel free to argue and decide if it is better to have it
>under <devices> instead.
>

So is this similar to -fw_cfg name=etc/vmcoreinfo,file=X but in this case it
is
not backed by a file, but collected by QEMU itself?

correct


would you mind adding a tiny detail about that into the commit message?


I'm OK with this being a feature.

Should I split the commit or can I resubmit like this without RFC?


It would be nice to have this in news.xml, so if you don't mind resending with
the second patch adding it to docs/news.xml, I'd be glad.

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