From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen_Gro=DF?= Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5][IA64][HVM] Windows crashdump support Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:47:24 +0100 Message-ID: <45B5BD8C.2010907@fujitsu-siemens.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser , Masaki Kanno , xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Keir Fraser wrote: > On 23/1/07 2:40 am, "Masaki Kanno" 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 -- Juergen Gross Telephone: +49 (0) 89 636 47950 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Telefax: +49 (0) 89 636 40638 Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 e-mail: juergen.gross@fujitsu-siemens.com 81739 Muenchen, Germany Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com