Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 9/9] dump: Make kdump-compressed format available for 'dump-guest-memory'

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:50:37AM +0800, address@hidden wrote:
> From: Qiao Nuohan <address@hidden>
> 
> Make monitor command 'dump-guest-memory' be able to dump in kdump-compressed
> format. The command's usage:
> 
>   dump [-p] protocol [begin] [length] [format]
> 
> 'format' is used to specified the format of vmcore and can be:
> 1. 'elf': ELF format, without compression
> 2. 'zlib': kdump-compressed format, with zlib-compressed
> 3. 'lzo': kdump-compressed format, with lzo-compressed
> 4. 'snappy': kdump-compressed format, with snappy-compressed

Please use kdump-zlib, kdump-lzo, and kdump-snappy so the format is
clear.  (There may be other formats that support zlib, lzo, or snappy in
the future.)