[libvirt] [PATCH] RFC: qemu: add vmcoreinfo support

[Martin Kletzander]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 09:27:52AM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>Hi
>
>----- Original Message -----
>> On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 01:09:09PM +0100, marcandre.lureau at redhat.com wrote:
>> >From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
>> >
>> >Starting from qemu 2.11, the `-device vmcoreinfo` will create a fw_cfg
>> >entry for a guest to store dump details, necessary to process kernel
>> >dump with KASLR enabled and providing additional kernel details.
>> >
>> >Since the device is a singleton and shouldn't use additional hardware
>> >resources, I decided to map this to a <feature> element in the libvirt
>> >domain XML. Feel free to argue and decide if it is better to have it
>> >under <devices> instead.
>> >
>>
>> So is this similar to -fw_cfg name=etc/vmcoreinfo,file=X but in this case it
>> is
>> not backed by a file, but collected by QEMU itself?
>
>correct
>

would you mind adding a tiny detail about that into the commit message?

>>
>> I'm OK with this being a feature.
>
>Should I split the commit or can I resubmit like this without RFC?
>

It would be nice to have this in news.xml, so if you don't mind resending with
the second patch adding it to docs/news.xml, I'd be glad.
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