This article describes how to generate a memory dump file from a provisioned target in a Hyper-V environment. This process requires no modification to the virtual machine.

Requirements

• Download and install the Debugging Tools for Windows package from Microsoft's web site: Debugging Tools for Windows (WinDbg, KD, CDB, NTSD).

• Download livekd from Windows Sysinternals.

Instructions

Complete the following steps to generate a memory dump file from a provisioned target in a Hyper-V environment:

1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the folder where you copied livekd to.

2. Run the following commands:

   1.  livekd -hvl - This command will list all the virtual machines running on that host.

   2.  livekd -hv <VMName> -p -o C:\Memory.dmp - This will pause the specified VM and then generate a dump of the VM to the path specified.

Taking a dump of a VM running on Hyper-V