[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh dump should not be live

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Aug 28 14:17:06 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:12:06PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> 
> Live dumps are much less likely to produce usable cores. They also
> trigger a Xen bug that crashes xend.

Better still, we should make use of the '@flags: extra flags, currently unused'
parameter to virDomainDumpCore() to allow requesting of live vs offline
dumps, since both have valid use cases.

Daniel
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