Dave,

  thanks for the review and here is the new patch. changes from the last version.

* add GPL license header

* remove stdbool.h

* complete function declaration

* add header file dependency in Makefile.

* fit VMWARE_VMSS to flag.

addition to the source file change, 

* vmss file samples.

  for vSphere ESX, memory dump is part of the vmss file;

  for VMware Workstation, memory dump stores in a companion vmem file.

   https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fe8cdwxg1mw97or/AADSDfKDc8dHgh2AIBrMJE1za?dl=0 

   - CentOS6.5-11bd56db.vmss - CentOS6.5/vSphere 5.5

     kernel-debuginfo-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.rpm  - symbol

     kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64-2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64.rpm - source

   - Ubuntu1404_64bit-65993542.vmss - Ubuntu14.04/Workstation 11

     Ubuntu1404_64bit-65993542.vmem - companion memory dump

     linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic-dbgsym_3.13.0-39.66_amd64.ddeb - symbol

   - run_crash.sh

* vmss parser - the internal structure of a vmss file.

   - https://github.com/dyno/vmss.scripts/blob/master/vmss_construct.py