From 59fbfed9b814f7e6d55adf9b3a978ee2c987d05b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:58:39 +0100 Subject: docs/vmcoreinfo: detail unsupported host format behaviour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin --- docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt index 821261067f..bcbca6fe47 100644 --- a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt +++ b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ processing of entry values. A write of 0 in guest_format will disable further processing of vmcoreinfo entry values & content. +You may write a guest_format that is not supported by the host, in +which case the entry data can be ignored by qemu (but you may still +access it through a debugger, via vmcoreinfo_realize::vmcoreinfo_state). + Format & content **************** -- cgit v1.2.1