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Subject: Re: Analysing VMcore files.
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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