Kdump fails to generate a vmcore on VMWare guests because of pvscsi kernel module
Issue
-
Upon testing Kdump, it hangs on the below message:
Waiting for required block device discovery Waiting for 2 sda-like device(s)...
OR
Saving to the local filesystem UUID=97a7ab3c-b437-4b36-9458-d9a110d06f0c Usage: fsck.ext4 [-panyrcdfvtDFV] [-b superblock] [-B blocksize] [-I inode_buffer_blocks] [-P process_inode_size] [-l|-L bad_blocks_file] [-C fd] [-j external_journal] [-E extended-options] device
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- VMWare virtual guest
- VMWare shipped
pvscsi
module [coming from either kmod-vmware-tools-pvscsi/vmware-tools]
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