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[Qemu-devel] [PULL 09/13] docs/vmcoreinfo: detail unsupported host forma


From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 09/13] docs/vmcoreinfo: detail unsupported host format behaviour
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 18:46:04 +0200

From: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>

Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
---
 docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt b/docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.txt
index 8212610..bcbca6f 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
 ****************
 
-- 
MST




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