Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Make QEMU text monitor parsing more robust

2009/12/8 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>:

The QEMU 0.10.0 release (and possibly other 0.10.x) has a bug where it sometimes/often forgets to display the initial monitor greeting line, soley printing a (qemu).  This in turn confuses the text console parsing because it has a '(qemu)' it is not expecting. The confusion results in a negative malloc. Bad things follow.

This re-writes the text console handling to be more robust. The key idea is that it should only look for a (qemu), once it has seen the original command echo'd back. This ensures it'll skip the bogus stray (qemu) with broken QEMUs.

ACK. Works like a charm now. Matthias