Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest

[Wen Congyang]

At 10/09/2011 06:23 PM, Richard W.M. Jones Write:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 10:49:57AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> As explained in the other replies: It is way more future-proof to use an
>> interface for this which was designed for it (remote gdb) instead of
>> artificially relaxing reasonable constraints of the migration mechanism
>> plus having to follow that format with the post-processing tool.
> 
> Any interface that isn't "get this information off my production
> server *now*" so that I can get the server restarted, and send it to
> an expert to analyse -- is a poor interface, whether it was designed
> like that or not.  Perhaps we don't have the right interface at all,
> but remote gdb is not it.

What about the following idea?

Introduce a new monitor command named dump, and this command accepts a filename.
We can use almost all migration's code. We use this command to dump guest's
memory, so there is no need to check whether the guest has a unmigratable 
device.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Rich.
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