Re: [Xen-devel] capturing windows crash dumps

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/08/2009 07:47, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Windows has provision for a driver to get called when a bug check occurs
> (KeRegisterBugCheckCallback etc), and also to get called every time some
> data is to be written to the dump file.
> 
> I would like to be able to capture that information into Dom0 somehow,
> as a few of the bug check's I've had in GPLPV in the past have rendered
> the block device driver inoperable and therefore unable to write out the
> dump file.
> 
> Is there an existing communication channel that could be used for this
> or do I need to invent write my own? The more low level the better (as
> in xenstore may not be accessible depending on the circumstances of the
> crash).

Could it be as simple as write the guest physical address of a pre-allocated
buffer into xenstore (from GPLPV drivers)? Then dump that area of guest
memory on guest bugcheck, even as a manual operation from dom0?

 -- Keir



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