I have tested the ported "crash" tool from development team(Mauricio and Bharata). It is working fine. Here are the steps I followed to do basic testing. 1) dump Ubuntu 14.04 LE VM dump using virsh dump command Ex: virsh dump --memory-only kal_ubu_at kal_ubu_at.dump --verbose VM: kal_ubu_at dump_file: kal_ubu_at.dump 2) scp "kal_ubu_at.dump" to Ubuntu VM 3) Install crash tool from development (http://poc1.ltc.br.ibm.com/~mauricfo/for_kalpana/lp1318809/crash_7.0.3-3ubuntu2.1+lp1318809.c3_ppc64el.deb) 4) Run crash =============> PASS 5) Open dump file using crash (for analysis purpose....) crash /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-3.13.0-24-generic /root/kal_ubu_at.dump Could able to open the dump file =======================> PASS crash 7.0.3 Copyright (C) 2002-2013 Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010 IBM Corporation Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Hewlett-Packard Co Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012 Fujitsu Limited Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Copyright (C) 2005, 2011 NEC Corporation Copyright (C) 1999, 2002, 2007 Silicon Graphics, Inc. Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Mission Critical Linux, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Enter "help copying" to see the conditions. This program has absolutely no warranty. Enter "help warranty" for details. GNU gdb (GDB) 7.6 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu"... KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-3.13.0-24-generic DUMPFILE: /root/kal_ubu_at.dump CPUS: 1 DATE: Mon May 19 11:58:51 2014 UPTIME: 2 days, 13:26:42 LOAD AVERAGE: 0.00, 0.03, 0.05 TASKS: 139 NODENAME: ubuk61 RELEASE: 3.13.0-24-generic VERSION: #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:29:18 UTC 2014 MACHINE: ppc64le (3026 Mhz) MEMORY: 2 GB PANIC: "" PID: 0 COMMAND: "swapper/0" TASK: c000000000ea59f0 [THREAD_INFO: c000000000fc8000] CPU: 0 STATE: TASK_RUNNING (PANIC) crash> few of crash commands tried: crash> bt PID: 0 TASK: c000000000ea59f0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "swapper/0" R0: 0000000022002084 R1: c000000000fcba70 R2: c000000000fccf88 R3: 0000000000000000 R4: c000000000e24e80 R5: 0000000000000000 crash> ipcs SHMID_KERNEL KEY SHMID UID PERMS BYTES NATTCH STATUS c000000075b2c380 00000000 0 0 644 80 2 c000000075b2d280 00000000 32769 0 644 16384 2 c000000075b22d80 00000000 65538 0 644 280 2 c0000000778ba980 00000000 98307 0 644 64 2 dest c0000000778bd280 00000000 131076 0 644 16384 2 dest c0000000778b9f80 00000000 163845 0 644 280 2 dest SEM_ARRAY KEY SEMID UID PERMS NSEMS c000000077b34a80 000000a7 0 0 600 1 c000000077b39880 610f20f1 32769 0 666 1 MSG_QUEUE KEY MSQID UID PERMS USED-BYTES MESSAGES (none allocated) crash> help * files mach repeat timer alias foreach mod runq tree ascii fuser mount search union bt gdb net set vm btop help p sig vtop dev ipcs ps struct waitq dis irq pte swap whatis eval kmem ptob sym wr exit list ptov sys q extend log rd task crash version: 7.0.3 gdb version: 7.6 For help on any command above, enter "help ". For help on input options, enter "help input". For help on output options, enter "help output".