On 8/11/26 11:24, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
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> Auto-triggered dumps (on_crash, watchdog) always use QEMU's elf
> default, which is not WinDbg-loadable for a Windows guest and cannot
> be reliably converted after the fact.
>
> This was proposed before as a per-domain XML knob
> (https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.libvirt.org/msg09638.html).
> Daniel P. Berrange objected: QEMU's query-dump-guest-memory-capability
> reported win-dmp as available on any x86-64 guest regardless of
> whether it had actually published a Windows dump header, so trusting
> it was not safe. QEMU's win_dump_available() has since been fixed to
> check the guest's vmcoreinfo note
> (https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260619101834.228432-1-den@openvz.org/,
> commit b4bdad7dce).
>
> Validated against real guests: a Windows Server 2022 guest crashed
> via Sysinternals NotMyFault produces a PAGEDU64 (win-dmp) dump; an
> AlmaLinux 9 guest crashed via sysrq produces an ELF one. A 1GiB quota
> across two Linux crashes pruned the older dump and kept the newer,
> over-quota one. syntax-check and virstringtest pass.
>
> Changes since v1:
> * detect the 'allowed-by-guest' feature QEMU 11.1 puts on the win-dmp
> member of DumpGuestMemoryFormat (thanks Daniel for idea)
> * skip the probe unless that capability is present, so QEMU that
> offers win-dmp to every x86 guest keeps the elf default (Daniel).
> * fix the sort position of both new symbols in libvirt_private.syms,
> which v1 got wrong; picked up Daniel's Reviewed-by.
> * update virtlogd.aug and test_virtlogd.aug.in for the quoted form (Daniel).
> * update libvirtd_qemu.aug and test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in for the new
> setting, and VIR_INFO -> VIR_DEBUG (both Daniel); count and remove
> only the dumps libvirt itself wrote, and skip pruning after a
> failed dump.
> * renamed test helpers for virStrToBytes
> * NEWS.rst entries added.
>
> Denis V. Lunev (5):
> qemu: add capability for guest-aware win-dmp availability
> qemu: auto-select win-dmp for crash- and watchdog-triggered dumps
> util: add virStrToBytes() and virConfGetValueBytes() for scaled sizes
> logging: accept a unit suffix in virtlogd's max_size
> qemu: cap total size of auto-triggered dumps under auto_dump_path
>
> NEWS.rst | 19 ++
> src/libvirt_private.syms | 2 +
> src/logging/log_daemon_config.c | 2 +-
> src/logging/log_daemon_config.h | 2 +-
> src/logging/test_virtlogd.aug.in | 2 +-
> src/logging/virtlogd.aug | 5 +-
> src/logging/virtlogd.conf | 7 +-
> src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug | 4 +
> src/qemu/qemu.conf.in | 17 ++
> src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 4 +
> src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 3 +
> src/qemu/qemu_conf.c | 2 +
> src/qemu/qemu_conf.h | 1 +
> src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 163 +++++++++++++++++-
> src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in | 1 +
> src/util/virconf.c | 47 +++++
> src/util/virconf.h | 3 +
> src/util/virutil.c | 23 +++
> src/util/virutil.h | 5 +
> .../caps_11.1.0_aarch64.replies | 5 +-
> .../caps_11.1.0_aarch64.xml | 1 +
> .../caps_11.1.0_x86_64.replies | 5 +-
> .../caps_11.1.0_x86_64.xml | 1 +
> tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c | 3 +
> tests/virstringtest.c | 76 ++++++++
> 25 files changed, 394 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
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