Thursday 30 April 2020

easy capturing of kernel stack traces with virsh

Today I needed to capture a rather large kernel stack dump, this is rather trivial using virsh.  Using virt-manager I created a VM named vm-focal and in the guest ran:

sudo systemctl enable serial-getty@ttyS0.service 

Then on the host running the VM I ran:

virsh console vm-focal

Then all I needed to do was produce the stack dump and the console output was successfully dumped by virsh. Easy.