<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""> hi, <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class=""> vmss file is VMware virtual machine snapshot file and contains all the necessary memory dump that crash requires. </div> <div class="">there is public available parse to read the format. <a href="https://code.google.com/p/vmsnparser/" class="">https://code.google.com/p/vmsnparser/</a> </div> <div class="">there is vmss2core (<a href="https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmss2core" class="">https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmss2core</a>) to convert it to standard core file. </div> <div class="">and this patch just enables crash to read it directly.</div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class="">rgds,</div> <div class="">Dyno</div> <div class=""><br class=""> </div> <div class=""></div> </body> </html>