Crash utility fails to open the dump file of a virtual machine created using the 'virsh dump' command
Issue
- The
crash
utility fails to open the dump file of a guest virtual machine created using thevirsh dump
command without the--memory-only
option.
# virsh dump guest guest.dump
# file guest.dump
guest.dump: QEMU suspend to disk image
# crash -s guest.dump /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64/vmlinux
crash: guest.dump: initialization failed
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 onward
- Red Hat Virtualization (RHEV) 3.6
- Red Hat Virtualization (RHEV) 4.0 onward
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