On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:02 -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: > > I've been playing with xen dumping on x86_64 and x86 (RHEL5 20061006.2); > > The following is a simple crash session on x86_64 (using "xm dump-core > > -L"): > > Interesting. It kind of looks like there's something different about the > corefile contents when using "xm dump-core" as opposed to forcing > a "real" crash, i.e., such as when using sysrq-c? Hrm, yeah, interesting... Last I tried with an actual forced crash of a guest, everything looked as expected when I spun up crash on the resulting core file. Of course, its been two or three weeks now, so it coulda changed. ;) > > Is xen dumping > > supported on x86, x86_64, ppc, ia64? > > x86 and x86_64 only -- ia64 is still TBD. ia64... yeah... I can't even get a xen guest to install w/o panicking dom0... :( > > Can anyone point me to docs that > > talk about xen dumping (e.g. internal/external wiki?) > > None that I'm aware of... > > The best thing that you can do is come over to my office, > and we'll get to the bottom of this. In the meantime, it would > be interesting to know whether the behavior above is the > same when you: > > 1. log into the domU > 2. echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger And another way to do it: if your domU has sysrqs enabled, then you can issue 'xm sysrq <domU name> c' from the dom0. That's actually what will get used for the rhts xen dumping test I've been meaning to finally write for some time now... :) -- Jarod Wilson jwilson@xxxxxxxxxx -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
