yes, it works well.
title Xen -- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 - 3.0.38-0.5
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/xen.gz vga=mode-0x317 crashkernel=128M@16M
module /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.38-0.5-xen root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEVS-08VAT2_WD-WXD0AA9V4924-part1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEVS-08VAT2_WD-WXD0AA9V4924-part5 showopts vga=0x317
module /boot/initrd-3.0.38-0.5-xen
HjCloud:/mnt/winimg/crash/#
echo c >/proc/sysrq-trigger
HjCloud:/mnt/winimg/crash/2012-09-30-19:03 # ls
README.txt System.map-3.0.13-0.27-xen vmcore vmlinux-3.0.13-0.27-xen.gz
HjCloud:/mnt/winimg/crash/2012-09-30-19:03 # crash -f /boot/xen-syms-4.1.3_02-0.5.1 /boot/xen-syms-dbg-4.1.3_02-0.5.1 vmcore
crash 5.1.9
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crash: /boot/xen-syms-dbg-4.1.3_02-0.5.1: no .gnu_debuglink section
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WARNING: crashing_cpu not found.
crash: invalid kernel virtual address: 523b4fd7c071bf18 type: "fill_pcpu_struct"
WARNING: cannot fill pcpu_struct.
crash: cannot read cpu_info.
Do you think my method is right?
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 03:18:28 -0700
> From: daniel.kiper@oracle.com
> To: duanshuidao@hotmail.com; crash-utility@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] how to generate xen hypervisor core though kdump or other way?
>
> Hi,
>
> > My server is Suse Linux SLES11 sp2 verison ,
> >
> > HjCloud:~ # uname -a
> > Linux HjCloud 3.0.38-0.5-xen #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 09:02:17 UTC 2012 (358029e) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 > GNU/Linux
> >
> > I know to get dom0 kdump core by "echo c >/proc/sysrq-trigger ",
> >
> > but don't know how to get xen hypervisor core, then how to analysis
> > the hypervisor core by Crash software.
> >
> > Can you help me?
>
> Does it work? If yes then /proc/vmcore
> contains proper memory image with
> Xen dump. Just get copy of it,
> get xen-syms (or something like that;
> I do not know how it is called in SLES)
> and pass them to crash tool. That is it.
>
> Daniel