[libvirt] Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Improve QEMU process startup error

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. Changes since v1: Drop patch 1 + 2 (applied separately) Patch 7 is pretty isolated, so was resent to list separately. Don't waitpid in virExecDaemonize if virExec fails. Remove needless pidfile loop in qemudStartVMDaemon.