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RE: [Patch][RFC] Support "xm dump" (is Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch]Enable

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Subject: RE: [Patch][RFC] Support "xm dump" (is Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch]Enable "sysrq c" handler for domU coredump)
From: "Graham, Simon" <Simon.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:45:05 -0400
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Thread-topic: [Patch][RFC] Support "xm dump" (is Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch]Enable "sysrq c" handler for domU coredump)
Two things:

1. I'm not convinced 'xm crash' is needed - 'xm destroy' will do this
(and if you want
   a dump, do 'xm dump' followed by 'xm destroy')

2. I don't see the point of the --noreboot option on 'xm dump' -- I
think this command
   should simply live-dump the specified domain - as above you can use
other commands
   to cause the domain to restart afterwards.

3. There's no need to pause the domain to dump it - I actually wrote a
little utility
   to live dump a guest (based on xenconsoled and attached) and it seems
to work
   quite nicely! This could easily be morphed into the 'xm dump' command
- it just
   didn't occur to me at the time!

Simon


> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Akio Takebe
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:57 AM
> To: Tristan Gingold; John Levon; Keir Fraser
> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda; Horms; Akio Takebe; xen-devel; Kouya Shimura
> Subject: Re: [Patch][RFC] Support "xm dump" (is Re: [Xen-devel] Re:
> [Patch]Enable "sysrq c" handler for domU coredump)
> 
> Hi, all
> 
> >>   For example panic dump option is used when domU kernel is hungup,
> >>   and we want to reboot and make coredump atomatically.
> >I'd prefer 'xm crash' (or 'xm panic') and 'xm dump' .
> >I'd prefer 'xm dump' *not* to panic by default.  It is too dangerous.
> >
> OK. I also think both are necessary.
> How about the following specification?
> 
> 1. xm crash
>    This is only for crashing a domain.
>    If enable-dump is yes, we can get the domain's core after crash.
>    And If we want to atomatically reboot, we should set
> on_crash='restart'
>    in domain configuration.
> 
> 2. xm dump
>    This is for live dumping a domain.
>    This implementation is:
>      1. pause the domain
>      2. dumping the domain
>      3. unpause the domain
>      4. reboot (if --noreboot option, don't reboot)
> 
>      I think we want to reboot when we want to dump.
>      So I want to be default reboot.
> 
>    BTW, I think the feature to online-dump domain and
>    hypervisor is also necessary.(meaning online is "don't pause")
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Akio Takebe
> 
> 
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