[Crash-utility] Question regarding crash usage on Xen Dom0 Kernel

[Daniel Kiper]

Hi Oliver,

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:01:12PM +0000, yang oliver wrote:
> All,
>
> Could latest crash version (b349598) could work on Linux 4.6.4 Xen Dom0?
>
> It seemed that crash only could support open dump files, instead of running directly without a kernel core.
>
> Please let me know whether my understanding is correct or not.

Sadly, yes.

> Daniel,
>
> If my understanding is correct, I’m wondering do you have the plan to support this crash use case on Xen Dom0?

Yep, however, I am working on more important stuff
right now and I do not know when crash fix for above
mentioned issue materialize. Though if you wish to
work on it go ahead. I am more than happy to review
relevant patch series.

Daniel