vparextract.1m (2010 09)

vparextract(1M) vparextract(1M)

NAME

vparextract - extract memory images from a running virtual partition system

SYNOPSIS

vparextract -b

vparextract -k

vparextract -l

Platform Support Remarks

vparextract is not supported on systems with Onboard Administrator (OA) based partition

management.

DESCRIPTION

The

vparextract command extracts memory images from a running virtual partition system.

Options

vparextract recognizes the following command-line options:

-b The boot path where the virtual partition monitor booted from is extracted and printed to standard

out. Supported only on PA-RISC platforms.

-k The kernel base address of the running virtual partition is extracted and printed to stdout. Sup-

ported only on PA-RISC platforms.

-l The event log is printed to standard out. It will show the complete log but is not guaranteed to be

atomic, ie, the log could get garbled at times.

RETURN VALUE

0 Successful.

1 Could not communicate with virtual partition monitor.

>1 Other error.

AUTHOR

vparextract was developed by the Hewlett-Packard Company.