Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add tool to attempt to crash HVM guests

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Durrant writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add tool to attempt to crash HVM 
guests"):
> This tool reads the CPU save records, overwrites RIP with a bogus
> value, and then restores them. This is, of course, not guaranteed
> to crash the guest (since the CPUs may not be executing in kernel
> at the time) but it's good for breaking into some tight loops that
> would be hard to debug otherwise.

Surely there must be a better way of doing this!  Isn't it sufficient
to pause the guest and then inspect it ?  Or do we need a new domctl
to crash the guest explicitly ?

Ian.

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