On 2011-10-11 04:20, Wen Congyang wrote:
>>>> The other reason why it would be good, is that we would then have a clearly
>>>> defined standard "QEMU dump format", instead of "libvirt dump format for 
>>>> QEMU"
>>>
>>> A core file would be that format - for direct gdb processing. No
>>> proprietary re-inventions please.
>>
>> I have no personal attachment to any particular format, so if the standard
>> core file format is possible, then we should definitely try to use it in
>> QEMU.
> 
> I do not know whether there is such standard format. But IIRC, the format of 
> kdump,
> netdump, and diskdump is very similar.
> 
> If we want to use such format in qemu, I think we can not do live dump in 
> libvirt.

You said you wanted to perform crash dumps - so there hardly anything
alive at this point.

Jan

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