On 07/15/2016 10:58 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > Currently, one could do a `virsh edit vm1`, to redirect guest serial > console output to a log file: > > <serial type='pty'> > <log file='/var/log/libvirt/qemu/vm1-serial.log' append='off'/> > <target port='0'/> > </serial> > <console type='pty'> > <log file='/var/log/libvirt/qemu/vm1-serial.log' append='off'/> > <target type='serial' port='0'/> > </console> > > But that requires cumbersome manaul editing of the guest XML. Is it > possible yet via virt-install? > > Perhaps something like: > > virt-install \ > --serial pty, log,file=/tmp/f24-serial.log \ > --console pty, log,file=/tmp/f24-serial.log \ > [...] > > The said feature was introduced in libvirt via these commits (by Dan > Berrange): > > - http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=06cb0cf -- qemu: > add support for logging chardev output to a file > - http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=00ce10c -- > conf: allow use of a logfile with chardev backends > Nope, released virt-install doesn't support it, but I just fixed it upstream: commit 322d21251630d16ab6664477c10d7442d9f222e7 Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 18 15:03:06 2016 -0400 cli: Add --serial log.file= and log.append= And for other character devices --console, --parallel, --channel Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
