Attempted to virsh dump against a VM and it failed with message: error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'dump-guest-memory': dump: failed to save memory
Issue
- Attempted to
virsh dumpagainst a VM and it failed with message: error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'dump-guest-memory': dump: failed to save memory
[root@hostx]# virsh dump <vm-name> <vm_dumpfile> --memory-only --verbose
Please enter your authentication name: vdsm@ovirt
Please enter your password:
error: Failed to core dump domain <vm-name> to <vm_dumpfile>
error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'dump-guest-memory': dump: failed to save memory
Environment
- Red Hat Virtualization Host 4.1 (el7.5-0.14)
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