Vivek Goyal wrote:
Seems that libvirt functionality isn't available yet with kvm (I'm using libvirt 0.4.2, I'll give libvirt 0.4.4 a try). cc'ing the libvirt-list to get their insight.
That aside, having the crash dump collection be multi-phased really isn't workable (that is if it requires a crashed guest to be manually saved after the fact). The host system _could_ be rebooted; whereby losing the guest's core image. So automating qemu and/or libvirtd to trigger a dump would seem worthwhile (maybe its already done?).
That's a good point. Ideally, one would like dump to be captured automatically if kernel crashes and then reboot back to production kernel. I am not sure what can we do to let qemu know after crash so that it can automatically save dump.
We can expose a virtual pci device that when accessed, causes qemu to dump the guest's core.
Ok. So first task is to fix host kexec/kdump with kvm-intel module inserted.
Can you do little debugging to find out where system hangs. I generally try few things for kexec related issue debugging.
1. Specify earlyprintk= parameter for second kernel and see if control is reaching to second kernel.
2. Otherwise specify --console-serial parameter on "kexec -l" commandline and it should display a message "I am in purgatory" on serial console. This will just mean that control has reached at least till purgatory.
3. If that also does not work, then most likely first kernel itself got stuck somewhere and we need to put some printks in first kernel to find out what's wrong.
kvm has a reboot notifier to turn off vmx when rebooting. See kvm_reboot_notifier and kvm_reboot(). Maybe something similar is needed for kexec? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function