VMDUMP has been slow (no, super slowwww) since the first day it existed. I 
can’t for the life of me figure out why that needs to be so but it is.

Don’t you wish guest A could map guest B’s real memory as a secondary address 
space on command and then you can use A to dump as far and fast as you want w/o 
perturbing anything at all in B - it’s already stopped etc.

> On Feb 26, 2016, at 2:51 PM, Robert J Brenneman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> first make sure you have enough empty spool space to contain the entire
> guest's memory. IE for a 1 GB guest have 1 GB of spool available.
> 
> then from the broken guest's console :  #CP VMDUMP
> 
> While you wait for that to run, read:
> http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/l26edt00.pdf
> Pay attention to the parts about kdump, since you want to get that working
> for next time. It is waaaaay faster than the VMDUMP command.
> 
> Once the dump is complete, reboot the Linux system, and then use the linux
> vmur command to pull the dump from the 0.0.000c reader device , use the
> --convert option, and send the resulting file to SUSE. It is probably good
> form to compress it with gzip first.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Victor Echavarry Diaz <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> We can't login a Linux guest ,but is working. We open an issue with
>> novell, they asked for a DUMP. But because we can't login, we can take the
>> dump. Our question is, can we made a dump from z/vm so Novell can use it?
>> We have SLES 11SP4 under z/VM 6.3 SSI.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Victor Echavarry
>> System Programmer, EVERTEC LLC
>> 
>> 
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