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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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.

Rich.

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