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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by
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Richard W.M. Jones |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest |
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Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:12:41 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:02:37AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> It would be kind of cool if there was a "/dev/mem"-like interface
> to a KVM guest's physical memory, so that you could sit on a KVM host
> and enter "crash vmlinux-of-guest /dev/mem-of-guest" in order to
> run live analysis of a guest.
OT for this thread, but this sort of thing does exist, kind of.
You can send monitor commands to qemu to read physical and virtual
memory ("pmemsave" and "memsave" respectively). At least one, and
possibly now both of these are bound through libvirt APIs:
http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainMemoryPeek
Here was your previous response about 4 years ago:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2008-August/msg00032.html
Rich.
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, 2011/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Dave Anderson, 2011/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest,
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Dave Anderson, 2011/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Avi Kivity, 2011/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Dave Anderson, 2011/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Avi Kivity, 2011/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Dave Anderson, 2011/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Jan Kiszka, 2011/10/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Wen Congyang, 2011/10/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Question] dump memory when host pci device is used by guest, Avi Kivity, 2011/10/25