On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 04:36:02PM -0800, Surojit Pathak wrote:
Hi Daniel,
Having GA to do graceful restart is nice option. But if it were to just
preserve the same console file, even 'virsh reboot' achieves the purpose. As
I explained in my original analysis, Nova seems to have not taken the path,
as it does not want to have a false positive, where the GA does not respond
or 'virDomain.reboot' fails later and the domain is not really restarted. [
CC-ed vish, author of nova
IMHO, QEMU should preserve the console-log file for a given domain, if it
exists, by not opening with O_TRUNC option, instead opening with O_APPEND. I
would like to draw a comparison of a real computer to which we might be
connected over serial console, and the box gets powered down and up with
external button press, and we do not lose the console history, if connected.
And that's what is the experience console-log intends to provide. If you
think, this is agreeable, please let me know, I will send the patch to
qemu-devel@.
The issue is more complex than just removing the O_TRUNC from the open() flags.
I havd a proposal that will (almost by accident) fix this in qemu by allowing
console log files to be "rotated". I'm also waorking on a similar feature in
libvirt.
I think the tl;dr: is that this /shoudl/ be fixed in kilo with a 'modern' libvirt.
Hi Tony,