kdump is failing to start on VMWare guest due to module errors
Issue
- Receiving failed message when starting the kdump service on RHEL VM that is hosted on VMWare ESXi:
# service kdump start
Detected change(s) the following file(s):
/etc/kdump.conf
Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64kdump.img
No module vmmemctl found for kernel 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64, aborting.
Failed to run mkdumprd
Starting kdump: [FAILED]
- Another system with the same kernel module configuration starts the service fine.
- Crash kernel image can not be created because of missing
vmmemctlmodule
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL)
- VMWare guest
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