dumping guest's memroy is introduced without compression supported, and this is a freature regression of 'virsh dump --memory-only'. This patchset is used to add support in libvirt side to make qemu dump guest's memory in kdump-compressed format and please refer the following address to see implementation of the qemu side, the lastest version of qemu side is v9(ready for being queued). http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-02/msg03016.html ChangLog: Changes from v4 to v5: 1. modify some restriction check Changes from v3 to v4: 1. dropping patch "add dump_memory_format in qemu.conf" 2. fix to follow some conventions Changes from v2 to v3: 1. address Jiri Denemark's comment about adding a new public API instead of changing an old one. Changes from v1 to v2: 1. address Daniel P. Berrange's comment about using a new parameter to replace flags like VIR_DUMP_COMPRESS_ZLIB. qiaonuohan (3): add new virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat API add qemu support to virDomainCoreDumpWithFormat API allow "virsh dump --memory-only" specify dump format include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in | 31 ++++++++++++++ src/driver.h | 7 ++++ src/libvirt.c | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/libvirt_public.syms | 5 +++ src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++---- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 7 ++-- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 3 +- src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c | 4 +- src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h | 3 +- src/remote/remote_driver.c | 1 + src/remote/remote_protocol.x | 15 ++++++- src/remote_protocol-structs | 7 ++++ src/test/test_driver.c | 20 +++++++-- tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c | 2 +- tools/virsh-domain.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++- 15 files changed, 275 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) -- 1.8.5.3 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list