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

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2011-10-09 12:23, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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.

Why is it not (for implementing core file write-out - I'm not proposing
to drop that part of libvirt)?

Jan

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