On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:57:37PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 04:06:38PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > > > In practice > > export LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 > > export LIBVIRT_LOG_OUTPUTS="0:file:virsh.log" > > and then running virsh will accumulate all logging to the virsh.log > > file in the current directory. > > This looks great. Okay, I have now commited the updated patches, there is still one augeas file I need to update, some test to be fixed because the output is slightly different now and increase documentation. > > One thing which I feel is somewhat incomplete is that it's impossible > > to remotely get debugging output from the libvirt daemon serving the > > requests. Currently all logs are also accumulated in a cyclic logging > > buffer, I would associate a dump function later to be hooked for example > > to a signal handler in the daemon. But I'm unsure we should allow > > dumping logging information to the remote end, probably not the whole > > set. > > I've been wondering whether we should create an explicit tool for > admin of the libvirtd daemon itself. Basically something for querying > state, and performing operations wrt to the daemon for things outside > the scope of the libvirt API. For example, something to get details of > active client connections, and forceably drop a client. Being able to > have an API to configure the log level / setup of the dameon would be > a useful thing. We can easily layer this kind of thing in as another > RPC protocol in parallel with the existing protocol, and have simple > CLI tool libvirtd-admin. SQUID has a 'squidclient' tool and a CGI > script for administration of the server itself. You envision that configuration tool to be able to work remotely ? Why not make that part of libvirt API, basically it's not that different from current Node operations, or maybe isolate them in a separate include header... Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list