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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>