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From: Avi Kivity <avi-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Export offsets of VMCS fields as note information
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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:57:21 +0300
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On 04/22/2012 01:33 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > 
> > What I don't understand is why you are interested in the guest machine
> > at all, if it was qemu that crashed.
> > 
> It would be interesting to extract enough information from the core to be
> able to restart the guest from the point where qemu crashed, but
> decoding VMCS is not enough for that.

Interesting idea.  It should be possible if you attach all kvm state to
the core (and do quite a lot of digging to recover device model state).

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