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

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/02/2013 16:19, Sheldon wrote:
> 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.

so if no export domain, dump fails.
(i guess i can live with that).