[Crash-utility] [PATCH v4] vmware_guestdump: new input format
d.hatayama at fujitsu.com
d.hatayama at fujitsu.com
Fri Oct 9 10:06:06 UTC 2020
> diff --git a/crash.8 b/crash.8
> index 136ae78..783fdf7 100644
> --- a/crash.8
> +++ b/crash.8
> @@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ or
> .I kvmdump
> facilities.
>
> +The
> +.B crash
> +utility is able to process VMware VM memory dump generated by VM suspend
> +or guest core dump. In that case, .vmss or .guest file should be used as
> +a MEMORY-IMAGE and .vmem file must be located in the same folder.
> +
> If a MEMORY-IMAGE argument is not entered, the session will be invoked on
> the live system, which typically requires root privileges because of
> the device file used to access system RAM. By default,
To preserve the original structure, I think the following is better.
# git diff
diff --git a/crash.8 b/crash.8
index 136ae78..420cd48 100644
--- a/crash.8
+++ b/crash.8
@@ -111,9 +111,10 @@ A kernel core dump file created by the
.I diskdump,
.I LKCD
.I kdump,
-.I xendump
-or
+.I xendump,
.I kvmdump
+or
+.I VMware
facilities.
If a MEMORY-IMAGE argument is not entered, the session will be invoked on
@@ -144,6 +145,13 @@ in /var/tmp, which will only exist during the crash session. If a raw RAM
dumpile represents a live memory source, such as that specified by the QEMU
mem-path argument of a memory-backend-file object, then "live:" must be
prepended to the MEMORY-IMAGE name.
+
+As VMware facility, the
+.B crash
+utility is able to process VMware VM memory dump generated by VM suspend
+or guest core dump. In that case, .vmss or .guest file should be used as
+a MEMORY-IMAGE and .vmem file must be located in the same folder.
+
.TP
.BI mapfile
If the NAMELIST file is not the same kernel that is
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