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Daniel,

The last tip on this page possibly?
http://wiki.stoney-cloud.org/wiki/Debugging_Qemu

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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 11:15:18AM -0500, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
>> Daniel, Kashyap,
>>
>> One question that came up on IRC was, how/where to configure say a
>> directory where core dumps from qemu would end up. Sean was seeing a
>> scenario where he noticed a core dump from qemu in dmesg/syslog and
>> was wondering how to specify a directory to capture a core dump
>> if/when it occurs.
>
> That's really outside the scope of libvirt.  On Fedora/RHEL there is
> the abrt program, which captures core dumps from any process in the
> entire OS and has configurable actions for where to save them. IIUC
> Ubuntu has some general purpose core dump handler too but I don't know
> much about it myself. They all work by hooking into the kernel's
> core_pattern  sysctl knob to redirect core dumps to their own binary
> instead of using $CWD
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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