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 > <http://tripsgrips.corp.gq1.yahoo.com:8080/source/xref/nova/nova/>/virt <http://tripsgrips.corp.gq1.yahoo.com:8080/source/xref/nova/nova/virt/>/libvirt <http://tripsgrips.corp.gq1.yahoo.com:8080/source/xref/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/>/driver.py <http://tripsgrips.corp.gq1.yahoo.com:8080/source/xref/nova/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py> > ] > > 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. Yours Tony.
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