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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest |
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Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:10:57 +0200 |
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On 2011-10-10 09:08, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> Am 10.10.2011 um 08:52 schrieb Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>:
>
>> On 2011-10-10 04:21, Wen Congyang wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I do not want to reject this proposal categorically, but I would like to
>> see the gdb path fail /wrt essential requirements first. So far I don't
>> see it would.
>
> Through gdb you access virtual address space, whilein this case you really
> want physical.
You want to attach a debugger afterwards as well. So this is just about
offlining the gdb session the end user should not have to handle himself.
Jan
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Alexander Graf, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest,
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Daniel P. Berrange, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/18