Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH v3] vmware_guestdump: new input format

vmware_guestdump is extension to vmware_vmss with ability to debug debug.guest and debug.vmem files. debug.guest.gz and debug.vmem.gz can be obtained using following .vmx options from VM running in debug mode: monitor.mini-suspend_on_panic = TRUE monitor.suspend_on_triplefault = TRUE guestdump (debug.guest) is simplified version of *.vmss which does not contain full VM state, but minimal guest state, such as memory layout and CPUs state, needed for debugger. is_vmware_guestdump() and vmware_guestdump_init() functions parse guestdump header and populate vmss data structure (from vmware_vmss.c). As result, all handlers (except mempry_dump) from vmware_vmss.c can be reused. How to use: $ crash /path/to/debug_file.guest vmlinux Companion debug_file.vmem must be present in the same folder as debug_file.guest. Otherwise crash will shot a message: vmw: Open the companion vmem file: /path/to/debug_file.vmem crash: vmw: /path/to/debug_file.vmem: No such file or directory Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov(a)vmware.com&gt;