[Crash-utility] patch to read vmware vmss file

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Thu Feb 5 19:48:19 UTC 2015



----- Original Message -----
> Dave,
> 
>   thanks for the review and here is the new patch. changes from the last
>   version.
> 
> * add GPL license header
> * remove stdbool.h
> * complete function declaration
> * add header file dependency in Makefile.
> * fit VMWARE_VMSS to flag.
> 
> addition to the source file change,
> * vmss file samples.
>   for vSphere ESX, memory dump is part of the vmss file;
>   for VMware Workstation, memory dump stores in a companion vmem file.
> 
>    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fe8cdwxg1mw97or/AADSDfKDc8dHgh2AIBrMJE1za?dl=0
>    - CentOS6.5-11bd56db.vmss - CentOS6.5/vSphere 5.5
>      kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.rpm  - symbol
>      kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.rpm - source
> 
>    - Ubuntu1404_64bit-65993542.vmss - Ubuntu14.04/Workstation 11
>      Ubuntu1404_64bit-65993542.vmem - companion memory dump
>      linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic-dbgsym_3.13.0-39.66_amd64.ddeb - symbol
> 
>    - run_crash.sh
> 
> * vmss parser - the internal structure of a vmss file.
>    - https://github.com/dyno/vmss.scripts/blob/master/vmss_construct.py
> 
> rgds,
> Dyno

Hello Dyno,

I added just one other minor change to fix up the debug fprintf's in vmware_vmss_init()
for a clean "make warn" comile on 32-bit hosts.
 
Queued for crash-7.1.0:

  https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/commit/f7e429764056d10e0ae87921e722e4e703cfb362

Nice addition to the supported dumpfile family.

Thanks,
  Dave




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