Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Python-lang gdb script to extract x86_64 guest vmcore from qemu coredump

2013-12-16 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 09:46:33PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: When qemu dies unexpectedly, for example in response to an explicit abort() call, or (more importantly) when an external signal is delivered to it that results in a coredump, sometimes it is useful to extract the guest vmcore from

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Python-lang gdb script to extract x86_64 guest vmcore from qemu coredump

2013-12-16 Thread Anthony Liguori
Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com writes: When qemu dies unexpectedly, for example in response to an explicit abort() call, or (more importantly) when an external signal is delivered to it that results in a coredump, sometimes it is useful to extract the guest vmcore from the qemu process'

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Python-lang gdb script to extract x86_64 guest vmcore from qemu coredump

2013-10-28 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 10/11/13 19:54, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com wrote: When qemu dies unexpectedly, for example in response to an explicit abort() call, or (more importantly) when an external signal is delivered to it that results in a coredump,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Python-lang gdb script to extract x86_64 guest vmcore from qemu coredump

2013-10-14 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com wrote: +For simplicity, the paging, begin and end parameters of the QMP +command are not supported -- no attempt is made to get the guest's +internal paging structures (ie. paging=false is hard-wired), and guest +memory is always

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Python-lang gdb script to extract x86_64 guest vmcore from qemu coredump

2013-10-11 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com wrote: When qemu dies unexpectedly, for example in response to an explicit abort() call, or (more importantly) when an external signal is delivered to it that results in a coredump, sometimes it is useful to extract the guest

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Python-lang gdb script to extract x86_64 guest vmcore from qemu coredump

2013-09-20 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 09/12/13 21:46, Laszlo Ersek wrote: When qemu dies unexpectedly, for example in response to an explicit abort() call, or (more importantly) when an external signal is delivered to it that results in a coredump, sometimes it is useful to extract the guest vmcore from the qemu process' memory

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Python-lang gdb script to extract x86_64 guest vmcore from qemu coredump

2013-09-12 Thread Laszlo Ersek
When qemu dies unexpectedly, for example in response to an explicit abort() call, or (more importantly) when an external signal is delivered to it that results in a coredump, sometimes it is useful to extract the guest vmcore from the qemu process' memory image. The guest vmcore might help