Wire up remaining VMM test guest crash dump collection features
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Description
Need to add the pieces cut from #2394 for time.
- Windows kernel dump collection
- Windows usermode dump collection
- WER keys live in the SOFTWARE hive, which IMC can't modify
- Linux usermode dump collection
- Drive is already mounted in cloudinit
- Need to configure kernel.core_pattern and ulimit, and maybe more?
- Linux kernel dump collection
- Drive is already mounted in cloudinit
- https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/software/kernel-crash-dump/
- OpenVMM backend support
- Need to create some sort of sparse file on all supported OSes to use as a disk
- Adding the disk to the VM is already done
- Explore using file systems that allow larger files (ntfs, exfat, others?)
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Research direction
Start by reviewing #2394, the existing cloudinit disk setup, and Ubuntu's kernel crash dump documentation. Determine the scope and entry points for each unchecked Windows, Linux, and OpenVMM backend item; done requires the supported guest crash dump modes and backend disk handling to work across the listed operating systems.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, rust, ubuntu
- Domain
- backend, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100