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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:05:53 +0000
From:      "Simon Burke" <simon.burke@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Analysing VMcore files.
Message-ID:  <2d7d2dd20811240305m3c589fbvcc93e51444cd188b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <gge0qr$lek$1@ger.gmane.org>
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2008/11/24 Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>

> Simon Burke wrote:
> > I am currently running FreeBSD 7.0 as my desktop OS, and I have a need to
> > analyse VWCores from a RedHat ES system.
> > Knowing very little about analysing dumps, is it possible to do this? or
> > would I have to set up a more comparable environment?
>
> In theory, you could set up a Linux environment
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html) with the
> binaries from your RedHat system, spawn a Linux shell and go from there
> as if you're on Linux, but this will almost certainly be more work than
> just finding a RedHat system (or even installing one in qemu).
>
>
That is more or less as I thought.It'll probably be easier to stay as I was,
using our ESX servers for this.

Thank you for your reply.

-- 
Theres no place like ::1

Thanks,
SimonB



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