[Crash-utility] crash does not support recent qemu save-vm formats

[Dave Anderson]

----- "Sergey Svishchev" <svs at ropnet.ru> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to diagnose a livelock-like condition (no response to
> 
> ping, serial console dead, KVM process consumes 100% CPU) of KVM virtual 
> machines on Ubuntu 9.10 (Ubuntu AMD64 kernel 2.6.31-17-server, QEMU 
> 0.11.0 and libvirt 0.7.0).
> 
> "virsh dump" generates a dump file that crash cannot read:
> 
> crash: qemu-load.c:501: cpu_init_load_64: Assertion `version_id >= 4 && 
> version_id <= 9' failed.
> 
> Indeed, CPU_SAVE_VERSION in this dump file is 10.
> 
> See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/crash/+bug/559219
> 
> -- 
> Sergey Svishchev

I'll check with the author of the crash qemu code.

BTW, if you follow the advice in the ubuntu bug description, does
the crash session work normally?

Dave