Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5][IA64][HVM] Windows crashdump support

[Masaki Kanno <kanno.masaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> It just seems a lot of plumbing for something not very useful, at least to
>>> users. You can dump memory via 'xm dump' after all if that's your goal (or
>>> will be able to when Isaku's patches go in). Would anyone else in the ai64
>>> community like to speak up for these patches?
>> 
>> I think there is a big difference between 'xm dump' and a dump done by 
>> domU.
>> Detailed error analysis might be possible only with a dump taken via domU
>>  as
>> the dump analysis tools will work in most cases on the domU specific dump
>> format only.
>> Outside the Linux world :-) (e.g. in most UNIX flavors) crash dump analysis
>> is very useful!
>> I would strongly support Masaki's patches.
>
>If that's the aim then perhaps the xm command should be given a better name.
>'xm os-init' is rather meaningless outside the context of physical INIT
>buttons on ia64 systems -- not a very generic concept to export to a VM
>management tool! Perhaps 'xm os-dump' with a guest-specific backend
>implementation in xend (default to fail with an error message).

Hi,

Thanks for your idea. 
I thought about some general concept command name, too. I enumerate 
below it and your idea.

 A) xm os-dump
 B) xm dump-trigger
 C) xm dump-core --trigger
 D) xm dump-switch

Any command name?

Best regards,
 Kan



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