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document kvm_open*() support for live vkernels
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Aggelos Economopoulos committed May 5, 2009
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.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3,v 1.5.2.6 2001/12/17 10:08:30 ru Exp $
.\" $DragonFly: src/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3,v 1.4 2006/05/26 19:39:38 swildner Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1994
.Dd May 5, 2009
.Dt KVM_OPEN 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
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return a descriptor used to access kernel virtual memory
via the
.Xr kvm 3
library routines. Both active kernels and crash dumps are accessible
through this interface.
library routines. Both active kernels (including vkernels) and crash
dumps are accessible through this interface.
.Pp
.Fa execfile
is the executable image of the kernel being examined.
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.Xr getbootfile 3 .
.Pp
.Fa corefile
is the kernel memory device file. It can be either /dev/mem
is the kernel memory device file. It can be /dev/mem, the path to
the procfs mem file for a running vkernel (i.e. /proc/$pid/mem)
or a crash dump core generated by
.Xr savecore 8 .
If
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