[Crash-utility] crash cannot work for the newest qemu's core

[Wen Congyang]

At 06/22/2012 09:06 PM, Dave Anderson Wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Hi, all
>>>
>>> When I use crash to deal with the vmcore generated by 'vrish dump',
>>> I
>>> meet the following error:
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>>> crash: seek error: kernel virtual address: ffffffff8180f1e0  type: "cpu_possible_mask".
>>>
>>> When I specify '-d 8' to get more information, I found the following message:
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>>> NOTE: KVM/QEMU CPU_SAVE_VERSION 12 is greater than supported version 9
>>>
>>> So I guess crash does not support it now. Does anyone have plan to fix it?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Wen Congyang
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>> Hi Wen,
>>
>> Also, because of your familiarity with this area, I certainly invite you
>> to take a look at this...  ;-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Dave
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> Hi Wen,
> 
> On a related note, what is the status with your "virsh dump-guest-memory"
> replacement of "virsh dump"?  The last I saw, it seemed like the qemu guys
> finally seemed willing to accept it?

dump-guest-memory is not a virsh's sub command. It is a qemu monitor command.
The patches for qemu and libvirt have been merged into newest qemu/libvirt.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

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> Dave
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