Re: process= support for 'qemu-kvm -name' [Bug 576950]

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[plowing through a stack of small patches that i've been neglecting...
 sorry for the delay.]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:05:06PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:19:51PM -0400, John Morrissey wrote:
> > I wrote (attached here, and to the bug) a quick patch that sets the
> > process name to the same value as the window title.
[snip]
> > @@ -3550,7 +3553,15 @@ int qemudBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr conn,
> >  
> >      if (qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME) {
> >          ADD_ARG_LIT("-name");
> > -        ADD_ARG_LIT(def->name);
> > +        if (qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME_PROCESS) {
> > +            char *name;
> > +            if (virAsprintf(&name, "%s,process=%s",
> > +                            def->name, def->name) < 0)
> > +                goto no_memory;
> > +            ADD_ARG_LIT(name);
> 
> I think it will be quite misleading to do this. eg a VM named 'foo'
> 
>   # qemu-system-x86_64 -vnc :2 -hda /var/lib/libvirt/images/plain.img -name foo,process=foo
> 
> Now the process listing shows
> 
>   # ps -w
>     PID TTY          TIME CMD
>   12009 pts/1    00:00:01 bash
>   12646 pts/1    00:00:00 ksmtuned
>   14494 pts/1    00:00:02 foo
>   14508 pts/1    00:00:00 sleep
>   14511 pts/1    00:00:00 ps
> 
> which leaves no indication that 'foo' is a QEMU process at all which is 
> rather bad IMHO. At the very least I think we should keep the binary base
> name here, and have the VM name as a postfix, eg so it shows

Unfortunately, qemu uses prctl() to set the process title, which has a limit
of 16 characters. How about "qemu:$VM_NAME" for the process title
(attached), so we waste as little as possible?

I'll look at doing something to increase the length limitation in qemu.

john
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diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
index 83c0f83..d3eba0c 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
@@ -1165,8 +1165,11 @@ static unsigned long long qemudComputeCmdFlags(const char *help,
         flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_ENABLE_KVM;
     if (strstr(help, "-no-reboot"))
         flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NO_REBOOT;
-    if (strstr(help, "-name"))
+    if (strstr(help, "-name")) {
         flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME;
+        if (strstr(help, ",process="))
+            flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME_PROCESS;
+    }
     if (strstr(help, "-uuid"))
         flags |= QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_UUID;
     if (strstr(help, "-xen-domid"))
@@ -4025,7 +4028,15 @@ int qemudBuildCommandLine(virConnectPtr conn,
 
     if (qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME) {
         ADD_ARG_LIT("-name");
-        ADD_ARG_LIT(def->name);
+        if (qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME_PROCESS) {
+            char *name;
+            if (virAsprintf(&name, "%s,process=\"qemu:%s\"",
+                            def->name, def->name) < 0)
+                goto no_memory;
+            ADD_ARG_LIT(name);
+        } else {
+            ADD_ARG_LIT(def->name);
+        }
     }
     if (qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_UUID) {
         ADD_ARG_LIT("-uuid");
@@ -6462,9 +6473,16 @@ virDomainDefPtr qemuParseCommandLine(virCapsPtr caps,
             if (strstr(val, "menu=on"))
                 def->os.bootmenu = 1;
         } else if (STREQ(arg, "-name")) {
+            char *process;
             WANT_VALUE();
-            if (!(def->name = strdup(val)))
-                goto no_memory;
+            process = strstr(val, ",process=");
+            if (process == NULL) {
+                if (!(def->name = strdup(val)))
+                    goto no_memory;
+            } else {
+                if (!(def->name = strndup(val, process - val)))
+                    goto no_memory;
+            }
         } else if (STREQ(arg, "-M")) {
             WANT_VALUE();
             if (!(def->os.machine = strdup(val)))
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
index d2e6857..1e4483a 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.h
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ enum qemud_cmd_flags {
     QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_ENABLE_KQEMU  = (1LL << 39), /* -enable-kqemu flag */
     QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_FSDEV         = (1LL << 40), /* -fstype filesystem passthrough */
     QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NESTING       = (1LL << 41), /* -enable-nesting (SVM/VMX) */
+    QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_NAME_PROCESS  = (1LL << 42), /* Is -name process= available */
 };
 
 /* Main driver state */
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