Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest

[Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>]

At 10/10/2011 02:52 PM, Jan Kiszka Write:
> On 2011-10-10 04:21, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> At 10/09/2011 06:23 PM, Richard W.M. Jones Write:
>>> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 10:49:57AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> As explained in the other replies: It is way more future-proof to use an
>>>> interface for this which was designed for it (remote gdb) instead of
>>>> artificially relaxing reasonable constraints of the migration mechanism
>>>> plus having to follow that format with the post-processing tool.
>>>
>>> Any interface that isn't "get this information off my production
>>> server *now*" so that I can get the server restarted, and send it to
>>> an expert to analyse -- is a poor interface, whether it was designed
>>> like that or not.  Perhaps we don't have the right interface at all,
>>> but remote gdb is not it.
>>
>> What about the following idea?
>>
>> Introduce a new monitor command named dump, and this command accepts a filename.
>> We can use almost all migration's code. We use this command to dump guest's
>> memory, so there is no need to check whether the guest has a unmigratable device.
> 
> I do not want to reject this proposal categorically, but I would like to
> see the gdb path fail /wrt essential requirements first. So far I don't
> see it would.

‘gdb path fail /wrt essential requirements’

what does it mean?

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> Jan
>