On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:59:57PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: > On 09/04/2017 09:17 PM, Shannon wrote: > > I find that libvirt clogs up syslog with trivial DHCP notifications. I > > know how to configure alternate logging with dnsmasq directly via > > 'log-facility' and/or 'quiet-dhcp' options > > (Unfortunately there isn't currently any knob you can easily turn to > reduce dnsmasq's logs) > > Interesting. A long time ago I was annoyed by all the logging produced > by dnsmasq and searched the standard/sample dnsmasq.conf for an option > to reduce the logging, but all I saw were options to *increase* it! I > guess I didn't look far enough. > > It would be nice for libvirt to take advantage of this, but since the > logging levels of other parts of libvirt are handled in libvirtd.conf > and qemu.conf, maybe it would be better to add the option there rather > than making it a part of the config for each network. (on the other > hand, it might be nice to be able to have more verbose logs for some > networks than for others). > > Does anyone have an opinion about this? Maybe we could have a > "dhcp_quiet" option in libvirtd.conf? (alternately I guess we could a > <log> element to networks, but that would require something sufficiently > generic that it would also be useful if someone decided to, e.g., write > a network driver that used the ISC dhcpd instead of dnsmasq). NB it would want to be in /etc/libvirt/network.conf, since this would be specific to the network driver. It seems reasonable to add such a thing. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
