Re: [libvirt-users] qemu-monitor-command

On 03/20/2012 07:30 AM, Shawn Davis wrote: Why? I would just access it through the public API virDomainMemoryPeek instead, then you don't have to worry about the nuances. Alas, virDomainMemoryPeek has not yet been wired into virsh (patches welcome!), so you'll have to access it through a custom C program, or through one of the other language bindings such as python or perl. That's because when you do raw pass-through like this, you are asking qemu to open the relative pathname 'image.dump', relative to the current working directory of qemu, which isn't necessarily the current working directory of your virsh process. Furthermore, if you are accessing a remote connection (such as -c qemu+ssh://remote/system), the file name is relative to the remote system, but you probably want the file to appear on the machine where you are running virsh. Finally, if SELinux is in effect, you have to ensure that qemu has proper permissions, including SELinux label, to open() the file; this is something that libvirt can do for you via the virDomainMemoryPeek API, but if you go through qemu-monitor-command, you are on your own. -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org