[vdsm] Review Request: dump the core of a VM.

[Sheldon]

On 02/05/2013 06:45 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 05/02/2013 12:11, Sheldon wrote:
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> There is a patch 'dump the core of a VM'. 
>> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/7329/
>> And this is the wiki page. http://www.ovirt.org/Features/vm_coredump
>>
>> I think the feature will be useful when used with high availability
>>
>> VDSM users can dump core of their VMs manually, when the find the VMs
>> crash or they receive a watchdog event report.
>>
>>
>
> thanks for the ping.
> why not sent to arch mailing list for review/comments on the feature 
> page?
>
> some thoughts (better replied on a thread on arch mailing list)
> I'm assuming limited to admins, not users.
Yes, agree.
> how dumps gets collected from host? cleaned to not use all space? is 
> space checked before dumping? how is path of dump determined (maybe 
> should be dumped to the export domain rather than to host, though more 
> complex)
IMHO, to an export domain is better to host.
for the dumps API, the file name must be assigned. It can be a nfs path.



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