On 11/15/2013 10:30 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > I agree taking assistance of hypervisor should be useful. > > One reason we use kdump for VM too because it makes life simple. There > is no difference in how we configure, start and manage crash dumps > in baremetal or inside VM. And in practice have not heard of lot of > failures of kdump in VM environment. > > So while reliability remains a theoritical concern, in practice it > has not been a real concern and that's one reason I think we have > not seen a major push for alternative method in VM environment. > Another reason, again, is that it doesn't sit on all that memory. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
