On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:08:02 -0600, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > log stderr and stdout from nbdkit into its own log so that > nbdkit-related issues can be debugged more easily. > > Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > src/qemu/qemu_nbdkit.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_nbdkit.c b/src/qemu/qemu_nbdkit.c > index 5abccf1536..f2ff9552a3 100644 > --- a/src/qemu/qemu_nbdkit.c > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_nbdkit.c [...] > @@ -902,9 +915,16 @@ qemuNbdkitProcessStart(qemuNbdkitProcess *proc, > return 0; > > error: > - if (errbuf) > - virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, > - _("nbdkit failed to start and reported: %s"), errbuf); > + if (qemuLogContextReadFiltered(logContext, &errmsg, 1024) < 0) > + VIR_WARN("Unable to read from nbdkit log"); > + > + if ((uri = qemuBlockStorageSourceGetURI(proc->source))) > + uristring = virURIFormat(uri); > + > + virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR is not appropriate for message which in most cases involves user missconfig e.g: error: internal error: Failed to connect to nbdkit for 'http://storage.example.com:10809/ppc64dev': nbdkit: curl[1]: error: problem doing HEAD request to fetch size of URL [http://storage.example.com:10809/ppc64dev]: Couldn't resolve host name: Could not resolve host: storage.example.com IMO 'VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED' will be better. It says "operation failed" > + _("Failed to connect to nbdkit for '%s': %s"), > + NULLSTR(uristring), NULLSTR(errmsg)); > + Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>