Re: [PATCH 0/3] Early use of boot service memory

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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

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