How do I force my hung RHEV or KVM Windows virtual machine to generate a crash dump?

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Issue

  • My Windows VM is hung and its console is non-responsive. I need to generate a crash dump for diagnosis. How do I force a crash?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x and above or Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM virtualization environment
  • Windows guest virtual machine

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