On 07/22/2013 10:20 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>> >>> Also, in any virtualized environment the hypervisor can do a better job >>> for things like kdump, simply because it can provide two things that are >>> otherwise hard to do: >>> >>> 1. a known-good system state; >>> 2. a known-clean kdump image. >>> >>> As such, I do encourage the virtualization people to (also) develop >>> hypervisor-*aware* solutions for these kinds of things. >> >> In general I agree but if you could not change hypervisor >> and/or dom0 (e.g. you are using cloud providers which are >> stick to old versions of Xen) then you have no choice. > > Which tends to be where kexec on panic comes in most cases. Getting > platform vendors to do something sane tends to be a multi-year political > effort of dubious worth while just solving the problem locally actually > gets the problem solved for those who care. > It should not be a "one or the other" issue. -hpa _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
