How to issue NMI to RHEL guest present on Oracle VM (OVM) to captue vmcore dump

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Unable to capture vmcore of a hung RHEL guest server residing on Oracle VM (OVM) server.
  • How to send a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) to RHEL guests present on Oracle VM (OVM) server.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Oracle VM (OVM)

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