The kdumpid tool can be used to determine the kernel version from a crash dump. Some useful features are missing:

• support for new compression methods (lzo, snappy)
• support for new architectures (ppc64le)
• for Xen dumps, include the hypervisor version in the output

Status after Hackweek 11

The kdumpid application has switched to libkdumpfile (see also the gdb-kdump Hackweek Project), which adds support for lzo and snappy. Partial support of ppc64le has been added, too. Xen hypervisor version is detected and printed.