On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 14:48 +1000, Suraj Jitindar Singh wrote: > The dump-guest-memory command is used to dump an area of guest memory > to a file, the piece of memory is specified by a begin address and > a length. These parameters are specified as ints and thus have a > maximum > value of 4GB. This means you can't dump the guest memory past the > first > 4GB and instead get: > (qemu) dump-guest-memory tmp 0x100000000 0x100000000 > 'dump-guest-memory' has failed: integer is for 32-bit values > Try "help dump-guest-memory" for more information > > This limitation is imposed in monitor_parse_arguments() since they > are > both ints. hmp_dump_guest_memory() uses 64 bit quantities to store > both > the begin and length values. Thus specify begin and length as long so > that the entire guest memory space can be dumped. > > Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjtindarsi...@gmail.com> s/sjtindarsi...@gmail.com/sjitindarsi...@gmail.com
woops... > --- > hmp-commands.hx | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/hmp-commands.hx b/hmp-commands.hx > index 0734fea931..3b5c1f65db 100644 > --- a/hmp-commands.hx > +++ b/hmp-commands.hx > @@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ ETEXI > > { > .name = "dump-guest-memory", > - .args_type = "paging:-p,detach:-d,zlib:-z,lzo:-l,snappy:- > s,filename:F,begin:i?,length:i?", > + .args_type = "paging:-p,detach:-d,zlib:-z,lzo:-l,snappy:- > s,filename:F,begin:l?,length:l?", > .params = "[-p] [-d] [-z|-l|-s] filename [begin > length]", > .help = "dump guest memory into file > 'filename'.\n\t\t\t" > "-p: do paging to get guest's memory > mapping.\n\t\t\t"