Re: [Crash-utility] On X86 host, how to build crash tool which can analysis pwoerpc vmcore

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 01:05:44PM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 05:30:30AM +0000, Liu, Jianbo (James) wrote: > > Even if we build with cross compiler, we still can not meet this request? > > Even with a cross compiler you'd need an environment to execute the > resulting powerpc build - about the only way that you can do that on > an x86 host is to use something like Qemu's powerpc support: > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-qemu-development/ > > It's slow compared to real hardware but if using a real power host is > not an option this may be worth looking into. I tested this earlier for analysis of a big-endian MIPS dump on an x86-64 host, with success. See these for more info: https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2015-March/msg00001.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2015-January/msg00028.html