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Author SHA1 Message Date
Dave Anderson
1ed90b28af Enhancement to the support of VMware .vmss suspended state dumpfiles.
There may be holes in the memory address saved for PCI, etc.  In such
cases, the memory dump is divided into regions.  With this patch, up
to 3 memory regions are supported.
(hfu@vmware.com)
2015-03-31 10:46:30 -04:00
Dave Anderson
f7e4297640 Added support for VMware .vmss suspended state files as dumpfiles.
Similar to all other supported dumpfile types, it is invoked as:

  $ crash vmlinux <vmname>.vmss

A "<vmname>.vmss" file created by the VMware vSphere ESX hypervisor
contains a header and the full memory image.  A "<vmname>.vmss" file
created by the VMware Workstation facility only contains the header,
and must be accompanied by a companion "<vmname>.vmem" memory image
that is located in the same directory as the "<vmname>.vmss" file.
(hfu@vmware.com)
2015-02-05 14:40:44 -05:00