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 Hello,
 
 I suspect the open source edition of vbox and the oracle non foss
 edition use the same format for the save state files (ram and device
 info dumps). The bulk of /proc/kcore equiv is in here, with other
 metadata. file(1) just whines this is data...
 
 If you have any information leading to use of this save state data
 with crash, please advise. I've scoured all the places I can think
 of. For better or worse, I'm not sure I can pull this off by using
 the ose code - it's just a bit too far above my head to know I'm
 making a reliable export of .sav files to kcore equiv outputs.
 
 Regards,
 
 Scott Edwards 
VirtualBox .sav files are certainly not one of the dumpfile formats
recognized by the crash utility, if that's what you're asking?  
Dave Anderson