get backtrace of KVM VM from host
Justin Cinkelj
justin.cinkelj@xlab.si
Mon May 21 08:27:00 GMT 2018
(crossposting from KVM maillist)
Hi
Is it possible to get stack backtrace into KVM VM from the host side? So
if I run './stack -p PID' (stack from elfutilfs
https://sourceware.org/elfutils/), I get backtrace of some process. I
would like to do the same for VM. I can assume VM will run only a kernel
(a unikernel, like OSv or IncludeOS), so most/all debug symbols will be
there in a single file, and at least IncludeOS doesnt load any code
beside its own kernel.
I did notice KVM_GET_REGS and KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION, and at least for
trivial examples (like https://github.com/dpw/kvm-hello-world) this
provides enough information to track which code was loaded into VM,
observe current stack content and registers. I can only guess much more
work is required to get similar result with qemu-kvm. Hence I'm asking
if this is already implemented.
Thank you,
Justin
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