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

[yang oliver]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your prompt response.

Crash is a good tool to me to understand kernel sub-system that I’m not familiar with.

Currently I’m working on some other work in Xen based environment, may revisit the issue later.


> On Jul 28, 2016, at 1:10 AM, Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 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