[Crash-utility] [PATCH 0/2] Generalize KASLR calculation and use it for KDUMPs

[Sergio Lopez]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:06:57AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> I have one obvious question.  Throughout the patch-set you are using
> KDUMP_DUMPFILE() as a qualifier, which is restricted to ELF vmcores
> only.  While the use of ELF vmcores is an option, it's far more likely
> that the output format of "virsh dump --memory-only" will utilize one
> of the compressed kdump formats, using zlib, lzo or snappy. 

Ups... this QEMU I'm using (2.9.0) generates ELF cores by default, and I
totally forgot about the "--format" argument.

Will try with other formats too.

Sergio.