Re: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5][IA64][HVM] Windows crashdump support

["Jürgen Groß" <juergen.gross@fujitsu-siemens.com>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 23/1/07 2:40 am, "Masaki Kanno" <kanno.masaki@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> I resend these patches. Could you comment them?
>>
>> They are able to collect a crashdump of the Windows on HVM
>> domain on ia64. 
> 
> It just seems a lot of plumbing for something not very useful, at least to
> users. You can dump memory via 'xm dump' after all if that's your goal (or
> will be able to when Isaku's patches go in). Would anyone else in the ai64
> community like to speak up for these patches?

I think there is a big difference between 'xm dump' and a dump done by domU.
Detailed error analysis might be possible only with a dump taken via domU as
the dump analysis tools will work in most cases on the domU specific dump
format only.
Outside the Linux world :-) (e.g. in most UNIX flavors) crash dump analysis
is very useful!
I would strongly support Masaki's patches.

Juergen

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