Bug 510519
| Summary: | [RHEL5.4 KVM]: Unimplemented "virsh dump" capability - crash utility support | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Dave Anderson <anderson> |
| Component: | crash | Assignee: | Dave Anderson <anderson> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.5 | CC: | anderson, pbonzini, qcai, sghosh, veillard, virt-maint, xen-maint |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | 507551 | Environment: | |
| Last Closed: | 2010-03-30 08:20:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 507551 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 507548 | ||
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0230.html |
Proof of concept -- taking Paolo's save-vm file parser code and adapting it as a supported dumpfile format in the crash utility: 64-bit: $ crash vmlinux-2.6.18-157.el5 save.qemu crash 4.0-8.12rc3 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. GNU gdb 6.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"... KERNEL: vmlinux-2.6.18-157.el5 DUMPFILE: save.qemu CPUS: 1 DATE: Wed Jul 8 06:23:57 2009 UPTIME: 00:00:16 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 TASKS: 22 NODENAME: (none) RELEASE: 2.6.18-157.el5 VERSION: #1 SMP Mon Jul 6 18:12:07 EDT 2009 MACHINE: x86_64 (2833 Mhz) MEMORY: 499.5 MB PANIC: "" PID: 0 COMMAND: "swapper" TASK: ffffffff80300ae0 [THREAD_INFO: ffffffff803f2000] CPU: 0 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE) WARNING: panic task not found crash> 32-bit: $ crash vmlinux save32.qemu crash 4.0-8.12rc3 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. GNU gdb 6.1 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"... KERNEL: vmlinux DUMPFILE: save32.qemu CPUS: 1 DATE: Fri Jul 3 06:50:26 2009 UPTIME: 00:02:12 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.49, 0.28, 0.10 TASKS: 85 NODENAME: xen36.englab.brq.redhat.com RELEASE: 2.6.18-152.el5 VERSION: #1 SMP Wed Jun 3 18:55:57 EDT 2009 MACHINE: i686 (2833 Mhz) MEMORY: 511.9 MB PANIC: "" PID: 0 COMMAND: "swapper" TASK: c06833c0 [THREAD_INFO: c06fb000] CPU: 0 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE) WARNING: panic task not found crash>