Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-15 Thread Dave Young
On 11/14/16 at 10:47am, Andrew Jones wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 01:32:56PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > On 11/09/16 at 04:38pm, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > On 11/09/16 15:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 01:20:51PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Nov 09,

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-15 Thread Dave Anderson
- Original Message - > > > On 09/11/2016 16:28, Dave Anderson wrote: > > I'm not sure whether this "guest userspace agent" is still in play here, > > but if there were such a thing, it could theoretically do the same > > thing that crash currently does when running on a live system. > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-14 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 14/11/2016 11:33, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:28:04AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >> >> On 14/11/2016 11:10, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> There's already patches posted to create a virtio-pstore device for >>> QEMU, which is what led me to suggest this as an opti

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-14 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 11/14/16 11:33, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:28:04AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >> >> On 14/11/2016 11:10, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> There's already patches posted to create a virtio-pstore device for >>> QEMU, which is what led me to suggest this as an option:

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-14 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/11/2016 16:28, Dave Anderson wrote: > I'm not sure whether this "guest userspace agent" is still in play here, > but if there were such a thing, it could theoretically do the same > thing that crash currently does when running on a live system. > > Both of those are available or calculatab

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 11:28:04AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 14/11/2016 11:10, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > There's already patches posted to create a virtio-pstore device for > > QEMU, which is what led me to suggest this as an option: > > > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-14 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 14/11/2016 11:10, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > There's already patches posted to create a virtio-pstore device for > QEMU, which is what led me to suggest this as an option: > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-09/msg00381.html It's also possible to use UEFI as a pstore

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-14 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/11/2016 17:01, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 04:38:36PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 11/09/16 15:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > That doesn't help with trying to diagnose a crash during boot up, since > the guest agent isn't running till fairly late. I'm al

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-14 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 01:32:56PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > On 11/09/16 at 04:38pm, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > On 11/09/16 15:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 01:20:51PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: > > >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:58:19AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-14 Thread Andrew Jones
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 01:32:56PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > On 11/09/16 at 04:38pm, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > On 11/09/16 15:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 01:20:51PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: > > >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:58:19AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-13 Thread Dave Young
On 11/09/16 at 04:38pm, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 11/09/16 15:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 01:20:51PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:58:19AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: >

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 04:38:36PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 11/09/16 15:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>> That doesn't help with trying to diagnose a crash during boot up, since > >>> the guest agent isn't running till fairly late. I'm also concerned that > >>> the QEMU guest agent is like

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 11/09/16 15:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 01:20:51PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:58:19AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:37:35AM +, Daniel

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Dave Anderson
- Original Message - > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:01:46AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to randomiz phys/virt memory > > addresses, we had some effort to support kexec/kdump so that crash > > utility can still works in case crashed kernel has

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 01:20:51PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:58:19AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:37:35AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 09, 201

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 09:36:08AM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > On 11/09/16 at 11:58am, Wen Congyang wrote: > > > On 11/09/2016 11:17 AM, Dave Young wrote: > > > > Drop qiaonuohan, seems the mail address is wrong.. > > > > > > > > On 11/09/16 at 11:01am, Dav

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Dave Anderson
- Original Message - > On 11/09/16 at 11:58am, Wen Congyang wrote: > > On 11/09/2016 11:17 AM, Dave Young wrote: > > > Drop qiaonuohan, seems the mail address is wrong.. > > > > > > On 11/09/16 at 11:01am, Dave Young wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to ra

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Dave Anderson
- Original Message - > Hi, > > Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to randomiz phys/virt memory > addresses, we had some effort to support kexec/kdump so that crash > utility can still works in case crashed kernel has kaslr enabled. > > But according to Dave Anderson virsh dump does not w

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Andrew Jones
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:58:19AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:37:35AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:26:17PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > > On 11/09/16 11:40,

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Andrew Jones wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:37:35AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:26:17PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > On 11/09/16 11:40, Andrew Jones wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:01:46AM +0800, Dave Y

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Andrew Jones
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:37:35AM +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:26:17PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > On 11/09/16 11:40, Andrew Jones wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:01:46AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 12:26:17PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 11/09/16 11:40, Andrew Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:01:46AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to randomiz phys/virt memory > >> addresses, we had some effort to support kexe

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 11/09/16 11:40, Andrew Jones wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:01:46AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to randomiz phys/virt memory >> addresses, we had some effort to support kexec/kdump so that crash >> utility can still works in case crashed kernel ha

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Andrew Jones
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 11:01:46AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > Hi, > > Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to randomiz phys/virt memory > addresses, we had some effort to support kexec/kdump so that crash > utility can still works in case crashed kernel has kaslr enabled. > > But according to Dave A

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-09 Thread Dave Young
On 11/09/16 at 03:42pm, Wen Congyang wrote: > On 11/09/2016 01:02 PM, Dave Young wrote: > > On 11/09/16 at 11:58am, Wen Congyang wrote: > >> On 11/09/2016 11:17 AM, Dave Young wrote: > >>> Drop qiaonuohan, seems the mail address is wrong.. > >>> > >>> On 11/09/16 at 11:01am, Dave Young wrote: > >>>

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-08 Thread Wen Congyang
On 11/09/2016 01:02 PM, Dave Young wrote: > On 11/09/16 at 11:58am, Wen Congyang wrote: >> On 11/09/2016 11:17 AM, Dave Young wrote: >>> Drop qiaonuohan, seems the mail address is wrong.. >>> >>> On 11/09/16 at 11:01am, Dave Young wrote: Hi, Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to rando

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-08 Thread Dave Young
On 11/09/16 at 11:58am, Wen Congyang wrote: > On 11/09/2016 11:17 AM, Dave Young wrote: > > Drop qiaonuohan, seems the mail address is wrong.. > > > > On 11/09/16 at 11:01am, Dave Young wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to randomiz phys/virt memory > >> addresses, we had

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-08 Thread Wen Congyang
On 11/09/2016 11:17 AM, Dave Young wrote: > Drop qiaonuohan, seems the mail address is wrong.. > > On 11/09/16 at 11:01am, Dave Young wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to randomiz phys/virt memory >> addresses, we had some effort to support kexec/kdump so that crash >> utility

Re: [Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-08 Thread Dave Young
Drop qiaonuohan, seems the mail address is wrong.. On 11/09/16 at 11:01am, Dave Young wrote: > Hi, > > Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to randomiz phys/virt memory > addresses, we had some effort to support kexec/kdump so that crash > utility can still works in case crashed kernel has kaslr ena

[Qemu-devel] virsh dump (qemu guest memory dump?): KASLR enabled linux guest support

2016-11-08 Thread Dave Young
Hi, Latest linux kernel enabled kaslr to randomiz phys/virt memory addresses, we had some effort to support kexec/kdump so that crash utility can still works in case crashed kernel has kaslr enabled. But according to Dave Anderson virsh dump does not work, quoted messages from Dave below: """ wi