Redirecting qemu's stderr to stdout makes working with the stderr output difficult due to the other file descriptor magic performed in _launch_qemu ("ambiguous redirect").
Add an option which specifies whether stderr should be redirected to stdout or not (allowing for other modes to be added in the future). Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> --- tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu index 8bf3969..2548a87 100644 --- a/tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu +++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/common.qemu @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ function _send_qemu_cmd() # $qemu_comm_method: set this variable to 'monitor' (case insensitive) # to use the QEMU HMP monitor for communication. # Otherwise, the default of QMP is used. +# $keep_stderr: Set this variable to 'y' to keep QEMU's stderr output on stderr. +# If this variable is empty, stderr will be redirected to stdout. # Returns: # $QEMU_HANDLE: set to a handle value to communicate with this QEMU instance. # @@ -151,11 +153,20 @@ function _launch_qemu() mkfifo "${fifo_out}" mkfifo "${fifo_in}" - QEMU_NEED_PID='y'\ - ${QEMU} -nographic -serial none ${comm} -machine accel=qtest "${@}" \ + if [ -z "$keep_stderr" ]; then + QEMU_NEED_PID='y'\ + ${QEMU} -nographic -serial none ${comm} -machine accel=qtest "${@}" \ >"${fifo_out}" \ 2>&1 \ <"${fifo_in}" & + elif [ "$keep_stderr" = "y" ]; then + QEMU_NEED_PID='y'\ + ${QEMU} -nographic -serial none ${comm} -machine accel=qtest "${@}" \ + >"${fifo_out}" \ + <"${fifo_in}" & + else + exit 1 + fi if [[ "${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}" -ge "5" || ("${BASH_VERSINFO[0]}" -ge "4" && "${BASH_VERSINFO[1]}" -ge "1") ]] -- 2.6.2