diff --git a/volatility/plugins/configwriter.py b/volatility/plugins/configwriter.py
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+import json
+import logging
+
+from volatility.framework import renderers
+from volatility.framework.configuration import requirements
+from volatility.framework.interfaces import plugins
+
+vollog = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class ConfigWriter(plugins.PluginInterface):
+    """Runs the automagics and both prints and outputs configuration in the output directory"""
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_requirements(cls):
+        return [requirements.TranslationLayerRequirement(name = 'primary',
+                                                         description = 'Kernel Address Space',
+                                                         architectures = ["Intel32", "Intel64"]),
+                requirements.BooleanRequirement(name = 'extra',
+                                                description = 'Outputs whole configuration tree',
+                                                default = False,
+                                                optional = True)
+                ]
+
+    def _generator(self):
+        filename = "config.json"
+        config = dict(self.build_configuration())
+        if self.config.get('extra', False):
+            vollog.debug("Outputting additional information, this will NOT work with the -c option")
+            config = dict(self.context.config)
+            filename = "config.extra"
+        try:
+            filedata = plugins.FileInterface(filename)
+            filedata.data.write(bytes(json.dumps(config, sort_keys = True, indent = 2), 'latin-1'))
+            self.produce_file(filedata)
+        except Exception:
+            vollog.warn("Unable to JSON encode configuration")
+
+        for k, v in config.items():
+            yield (0, (k, json.dumps(v)))
+
+    def run(self):
+        return renderers.TreeGrid([("Key", str),
+                                   ("Value", str)],
+                                  self._generator())