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| author |   Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com> | 2012-08-15 09:51:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com> | 2012-09-20 16:41:07 +0200 |
| commit | 78f3666fe929428016ce55694094f65efb0b9a0f (patch) | |
| tree | f6289e9b43fc1a41f408424621aae11bad6b4865 /docs | |
| parent | QEMU Tests for reboot-timeout (diff) | |
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Add support for limiting guest coredump
Sometimes when guest machine crashes, coredump can get huge due to the
guest memory. This can be limited using madvise(2) system call and is
being used in QEMU hypervisor. This patch adds an option for configuring
that in the domain XML and related documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/formatdomain.html.in | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 8 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in index a403ba8c5..f05350e80 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in @@ -515,9 +515,15 @@ However, the value will be rounded up to the nearest kibibyte by libvirt, and may be further rounded to the granularity supported by the hypervisor. Some hypervisors also enforce a - minimum, such as - 4000KiB. <span class='since'><code>unit</code> since - 0.9.11</span></dd> + minimum, such as 4000KiB. + + In the case of crash, optional attribute <code>dumpCore</code> + can be used to control whether the guest memory should be + included in the generated coredump or not (values "on", "off"). + + <span class='since'><code>unit</code> since 0.9.11</span>, + <span class='since'><code>dumpCore</code> since 0.10.2 + (QEMU only)</span></dd> <dt><code>currentMemory</code></dt> <dd>The actual allocation of memory for the guest. This value can be less than the maximum allocation, to allow for ballooning diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng index afa6bbd19..75afac2e1 100644 --- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng +++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng @@ -470,6 +470,14 @@ <interleave> <element name="memory"> <ref name='scaledInteger'/> + <optional> + <attribute name="dumpCore"> + <choice> + <value>on</value> + <value>off</value> + </choice> + </attribute> + </optional> </element> <optional> <element name="currentMemory"> |