On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 04:19:15PM -0700, Jeff Bonwick wrote: > (2) In a virtualized environment, a better way to get a crash dump > would be to snapshot the VM. This would require a little bit > of host/guest cooperation, in that the installer (or dumpadm) > would have to know that it's operating in a VM, and the kernel > would need some way to notify the VM that it just panicked. > Both of these ought to be doable.
This is trivial with xVM, btw: just make the panic routine call HYPERVISOR_shutdown(SHUTDOWN_crash); and dom0 will automatically create a full crash dump for the domain, which is readably directly in MDB. As a refinement you might want to only do this if a (suitable) place to crash dump isn't available. regards john _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
