Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] contrib: add elf2dmp tool

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 29/08/2018 14:41, Viktor Prutyanov wrote:
> elf2dmp is a converter from ELF dump (produced by 'dump-guest-memory') to
> Windows MEMORY.DMP format (also know as 'Complete Memory Dump') which can be
> opened in WinDbg.
> 
> This tool can help if VMCoreInfo device/driver is absent in Windows VM and
> 'dump-guest-memory -w' is not available but dump can be created in ELF format.
> 
> elf2dmp differs from other universal converters in method of determining of
> virtual memory layout. The tool uses register values from QEMU ELF dump file
> to do it. In particular, it uses KERNEL_GS_BASE value added to dump format in
> QEMU 3.0.
> 
> Even if KERNEL_GS_BASEs are absent in ELF dump file, at least 1 vCPU with
> kernel task can be found quite often and virtual memory layout can be
> determined.
> 
> Viktor Prutyanov (5):
>   dump: move Windows dump structures definitions
>   contrib: add elf2dmp tool
>   contrib/elf2dmp: improve paging root selection
>   contrib/elf2dmp: add DMP file name as 2nd argument
>   contrib/elf2dmp: add 1GB and 2MB pages support
> 
>  Makefile                      |   5 +
>  Makefile.objs                 |   1 +
>  configure                     |   3 +
>  contrib/elf2dmp/Makefile.objs |   1 +
>  contrib/elf2dmp/addrspace.c   | 236 +++++++++++++++++
>  contrib/elf2dmp/addrspace.h   |  44 ++++
>  contrib/elf2dmp/download.c    |  50 ++++
>  contrib/elf2dmp/download.h    |  13 +
>  contrib/elf2dmp/err.h         |  13 +
>  contrib/elf2dmp/kdbg.h        | 194 ++++++++++++++
>  contrib/elf2dmp/main.c        | 594 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  contrib/elf2dmp/pdb.c         | 331 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  contrib/elf2dmp/pdb.h         | 241 +++++++++++++++++
>  contrib/elf2dmp/pe.h          | 121 +++++++++
>  contrib/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.c    | 172 ++++++++++++
>  contrib/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.h    |  51 ++++
>  include/qemu/win_dump_defs.h  | 179 +++++++++++++
>  win_dump.h                    | 166 +-----------
>  18 files changed, 2253 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/Makefile.objs
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/addrspace.c
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/addrspace.h
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/download.c
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/download.h
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/err.h
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/kdbg.h
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/main.c
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/pdb.c
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/pdb.h
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/pe.h
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.c
>  create mode 100644 contrib/elf2dmp/qemu_elf.h
>  create mode 100644 include/qemu/win_dump_defs.h
> 

Queued, squashing patches 2-5.  Would you like to send a patch for
MAINTAINERS, adding yourself for elf2dmp?

Paolo