From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42408) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDF83-0006Wv-4o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:38:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDF7w-0002u4-Nk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:38:47 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:7028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDF7w-0002tj-Df for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:38:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4E92E74B.7030104@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:38:35 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4E916035.5050906@web.de> <20111009102338.GN16799@amd.home.annexia.org> <4E92568E.2010507@cn.fujitsu.com> <20111010090825.GG9408@redhat.com> <20111010091021.GH9408@redhat.com> <4E92BC34.6090500@siemens.com> <20111010102112.GB2550@bow.tlv.redhat.com> <4E92CD94.4090104@redhat.com> <20111010110444.GQ9408@redhat.com> <4E92D25D.10905@redhat.com> <20111010120021.GA7847@bow.tlv.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20111010120021.GA7847@bow.tlv.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] windows crash dump header. was: Re: [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Jan Kiszka , Luiz Capitulino , qemu-devel , "Richard W.M. Jones" On 10/10/2011 02:00 PM, Alon Levy wrote: >> > Note that the guest can generate the buffer before it crashes. >> > > Thanks. The contents seem to be undocumented (stubbed in reactos). Those lazy reactos authors. :) 32-bit: http://www.google.com/codesearch#s5CWGGZtI6g/trunk/Volatility/vtypes.py&q=MajorVersion&exact_package=http://volatility.googlecode.com/svn&ct=rc&cd=1 64-bit: https://singularity.svn.codeplex.com/svn/base/Windows/Inc/Dump.h Looks like most of the fields can be made up at crash time, with some luck the others are not needed for a basic debugging session. Paolo