Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] dump: add Windows crashdump format

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 17/05/2018 18:23, Viktor Prutyanov wrote:
> Recently a Windows guest driver has been added with the ability to
> publish the data needed to produce useful guest dumps on the
> hypervisor side.  The data is wrapped in a standard VMCOREINFO
> container and is exposed to the hypervisor via FwCfg (see
> https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/tree/master/fwcfg64)
> 
> This patch series extends dump-guest-memory to make use of this data
> and generate guest dumps in Windows crashdump format directly in QEMU
> (as opposed to postprocessing the traditional ELF dumps).
> 
> The first patch in the series is identical to the one posted two weeks
> ago with message-id: <20180501132031.13270-1-viktor.prutyanov@virtuozzo.com>.
> The rest are various improvements on top of it, making it useful in
> situations beyond immediately after a BSOD.
> 
> Viktor Prutyanov (4):
>   dump: add Windows dump format to dump-guest-memory
>   dump: use system context in Windows dump
>   dump: add fallback KDBG using in Windows dump
>   dump: add Windows live system dump
> 
>  Makefile.target |   1 +
>  dump.c          |  24 +++-
>  hmp-commands.hx |  13 +-
>  hmp.c           |   9 +-
>  qapi/misc.json  |   5 +-
>  win_dump.c      | 385 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  win_dump.h      | 176 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 604 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 win_dump.c
>  create mode 100644 win_dump.h
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo