On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 02:54:13PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:11:03AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >> On 10/10/2012 08:54 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> >This would be essential for libguestfs tools to parse logs out of > >> >guests (we do it now by reading /var/log/messages etc which has all of > >> >the properties you state). > >> > >> I'm not sure how you are doing this currently but for shutdown guest > >> I assume you would mount then run something like > >> > >> journalctl -D /path/to/journal/files | the script you use to parse the logs > > > > The question is whether this works with different versions of journal > > on the host and in the guest. A typical case we have to deal with is > > someone running a stable RHEL host, and Fedora guests > > (ie. host version < guest version). > > Can't you run the journal from the guest? Or does this open another > can of worms? Security worms, yes. We try very much to avoid running code from the guest. cf. grub problems previously discussed on this list. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
