Error reporting for failed QEMU processes isn't too great at the moment. A couple cases I have hit:
- Trying to start a VM with a cdrom pointing to a nonexistent file. The svirt hook function choked on this and indicated as much in the domain log, but I still had to wait for the pidfile timeout (10 seconds), and the only error reported was 'Domain did not show up'. - QEMU dies quickly at startup. Happened with the pulse audio issue, or if we build cli args incorrectly. The reporting here varies: if QEMU dies before writing out the pidfile, the above case applies. If the pidfile is written, we timeout in ReadLogOutput, and it's hit or miss whether we even report the logfile output to the user. The following patches improve the above cases by ensuring we never have to wait for a timeout, and that the logfile output is always reported in the error message. Cole Robinson (7): Add documentation for __virExec and virExec virExec: Delay daemonizing as long as possible. Add helper function virExecDaemonize Report qemu log data if we fail to daemonize the process. Add pidfile argument to __virExec Check that QEMU is still alive while reading startup output. Don't throw away QEMU startup errors when migrating. src/libvirt_private.syms | 2 +- src/proxy_internal.c | 16 +-- src/qemu_conf.c | 7 - src/qemu_driver.c | 105 +++++++---- src/remote_internal.c | 15 +-- src/uml_driver.c | 11 +- src/util.c | 186 +++++++++++++++----- src/util.h | 15 ++- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-boot-cdrom.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-boot-floppy.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-boot-network.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-bootloader.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-clock-localtime.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-clock-utc.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-console-compat.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-empty.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-boot-cdrom.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-boot-disk.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-cache-v1-none.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-cache-v1-wb.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-cache-v1-wt.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-cache-v2-none.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-cache-v2-wb.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-cache-v2-wt.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-fmt-qcow.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-disk-drive-shared.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-floppy.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-many.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-usb.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-virtio.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-xenvbd.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-sdl-fullscreen.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-sdl.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-vnc-sasl.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-vnc-tls.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-vnc.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-hostdev-pci-address.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-hostdev-usb-address.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-hostdev-usb-product.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-input-usbmouse.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-input-usbtablet.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-input-xen.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-migrate.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-minimal.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-misc-acpi.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-misc-no-reboot.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-misc-uuid.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-net-eth-ifname.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-net-eth.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-net-user.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-net-virtio.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-parallel-tcp.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-restore-v1.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-restore-v2.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-dev.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-file.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-many.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-pty.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argv-serial-tcp-telnet.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-tcp.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-udp.args | 2 +- .../qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-unix.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-serial-vc.args | 2 +- tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-sound.args | 2 +- 65 files changed, 288 insertions(+), 183 deletions(-) -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
