On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 08/10/2012 05:31 PM, Harish Patil wrote:By default, it dumps in the same format needed to migrate a VM from one
> Hi
> I have both host and KVM/QEMU guest VM running linux.
>
> Questions:
> What are the constituents of the virsh dump?
> - What all areas does it dumps?
host to another. As of 0.9.13 and new enough qemu (basically, a feature
in qemu.git but not released until the upcoming qemu 1.2), you can also
use 'virsh dump --memory-only' to force a dump to an ELF image instead.
If you use the --memory-only option, then it is very similar (although
> - Is it same as taking guest VM's core dump via kexec/kdump?
the dump is performed without guest involvement). If you want an actual
kexec/kdump from the guest, then you'll have to have the guest create
that; it may be worth requesting a qemu-ga guest agent command to
trigger a guest to dump itself.
[Harish] How can we achieve this and whom do we request for qemu-ga cmd ? How does it work? Thanks much for your answers.
No, it is not a core dump of the qemu process itself.
> - Does it include QEMU's info to debug qemu-level issues?
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