libvirt/docs/kbase/index.rst
Daniel P. Berrangé 5f14729bbe docs: add kbase article on how to configure core dumps for QEMU
Enabling core dumps is a reasonably straightforward task, but is not
documented clearly. This page provides as easy link to point users
to when they need to debug QEMU.

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2021-07-20 14:24:11 +01:00

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Knowledge base

Usage

Secure usage

Secure usage of the libvirt APIs

Backing chain management

Explanation of how disk backing chain specification impacts libvirt's behaviour and basic troubleshooting steps of disk problems.

Virtio-FS

Share a filesystem between the guest and the host

Security with QEMU passthrough

Examination of the security protections used for QEMU and how they need configuring to allow use of QEMU passthrough with host files/devices.

RPM deployment

Explanation of the different RPM packages and illustration of which to pick for installation

Domain state capture

Comparison between different methods of capturing domain state

Disk locking

Ensuring exclusive guest access to disks with virtlockd or Sanlock

Protected virtualization on s390

Running secure s390 guests with IBM Secure Execution

Launch security

Securely launching VMs with AMD SEV

Live full disk backup

A walkthrough of how to take effective live full disk backups.

Merging disk image chains

Ways to reduce or consolidate disk image chains.

KVM real time

Run real time workloads in guests on a KVM hypervisor

PCI hotplug

Effective usage of PCI hotplug

PCI topology

Addressing schemes for PCI devices

Internals / Debugging

Debug logs

Configuration of logging and tips on how to file a good bug report.

Systemtap

Explanation of how to use systemtap for libvirt tracing.

Incremental backup internals

Incremental backup implementation details relevant for users

VM migration internals

VM migration implementation details, complementing the info in migration

Capturing core dumps for QEMU

How to configure libvirt to enable capture of core dumps from QEMU virtual machines