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.
Paolo
