KVM Forum 2024

VM crash investigation: Unmasking the culprits
2024-09-22 , Hall A+B

We all know that debugging containers can be tough. In immutable pods, with limited capabilities and minimal packages, we can be additionally hindered without our favorite debugging tools or even the required privileges; it can be downright frustrating. And containerized virtual machines aka KubeVirt? It's another layer again!

But there's hope. Join us as we explore common problems and repeatable solutions to debug KubeVirt failures and how to mix Kubernetes debugging techniques with more traditional virtualization debugging methods.

In this session you will learn:
- How to do privileged debugging on the node
- How we can bring additional tools into the target container as a regular user
- How to use traditional VM debugging in Kubernetes

All of which will help you to find your way in the container world.

See also: Slides for "KVM forum 2024 - VM crash investigation: Unmasking the culprits" talk (846.1 KB)

Alice is a Principal Software Engineer working on KubeVirt, virtualization, and containers. She focuses mostly on storage topics but she has fun exploring all possible combinations of containers and VMs.