kexec/kdump of a kvm guest?

[Anthony Liguori]

Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:49:59AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>>>       
> I can do further research but welcome others' insight: do others have
> advice on how best to collect a crashed kvm guest's core?
>   

I don't know what you do in libvirt, but you can start a gdbstub in 
QEMU, connect with gdb, and then have gdb dump out a core.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>> It will be interesting to look at your results with 2.6.25.x kernels with
>> kvm module inserted. Currently I can't think what can possibly be wrong.
>>     
>
> If the host's 2.6.25.4 kernel has both the kvm and kvm-intel modules
> loaded kexec/kdump does _not_ work (simply hangs the system).  If I
> only have the kvm module loaded kexec/kdump works as expected
> (likewise if no kvm modules are loaded at all).  So it would appear
> that kvm-intel and kexec are definitely mutually exclusive at the
> moment (at least on both 2.6.22.x and 2.6.25.x).
>
> Mike
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