Libvirtd has long had integration with avahi for advertising libvirtd
using mDNS when TCP/TLS listening is enabled. For a long time the
virt-manager application had support for auto-detecting libvirtds
on the local network using mDNS, but this was removed last year
commit fc8f8d5d7e3ba80a0771df19cf20e84a05ed2422
Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Date: Sat Oct 6 20:55:31 2018 -0400
connect: Drop avahi support
Libvirtd can advertise itself over avahi. The feature is disabled by
default though and in practice I hear of no one actually using it
and frankly I don't think it's all that useful
The 'Open Connection' wizard has a disproportionate amount of code
devoted to this feature, but I don't think it's useful or worth
maintaining, so let's drop it
I've never heard of any other applications having support for using
mDNS to detect libvirtd instances. Though it is theoretically possible
something exists out there, it is clearly going to be a niche use case
in the virt ecosystem as a whole.
By removing avahi integration we can cut down the dependency chain for
the basic libvirtd install and reduce our code maint burden.
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The libvirtd.conf file has a comment pointing people to format.html
which has nothing todo with the configuration file format.
It also has a comment about tests/daemon-conf which no longer exists,
and even if it did exist such comment is not relevant to end users
when this file is installed in /etc/.
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Strongly recommend against use of the log_levels setting since it
creates overly verbose logs and has a serious performance impact.
Describe the log filter syntax better and mention use of shell
glob syntax. Also provide more realistic example of good settings
to use. The libvirtd example is biased towards QEMU, but when the
drivers split off each daemon can get its own more appropriate
example.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 8daa593b07.
There are two undesirable aspects to the impl
- Only a bare wildcard is permitted
- The wildcard match is not performed in the order listed
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Since the introduction of log tuning capabilities to virt-admin by
@06b91785, this has been a much needed missing improvement on the way to
deprecate the global 'log_level'.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
When applying the log filters, one has to define the more specific
filters before the generic ones, because the first filter that matches
will be applied. However, we've been missing this information in the
config, so it always has been a trial-error scenario figuring out that
e.g. '4:util 1:util.pci' doesn't actually enable verbose logging on the
src/util/virpci.c module because 4:util will be matched first.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The global log buffer feature was deleted in:
commit c0c8c1d7bb
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Mon Mar 3 14:54:33 2014 +0000
Remove global log buffer feature entirely
A earlier commit changed the global log buffer so that it only
records messages that are explicitly requested via the log
filters setting. This removes the performance burden, and
improves the signal/noise ratio for messages in the global
buffer. At the same time though, it is somewhat pointless, since
all the recorded log messages are already going to be sent to an
explicit log output like syslog, stderr or the journal. The
global log buffer is thus just duplicating this data on stderr
upon crash.
The log_buffer_size config parameter is left in the augeas
lens to prevent breakage for users on upgrade. It is however
completely ignored hereafter.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
This was in the 1.2.3 release, and 4 years is sufficient time for a
graceful upgrade path for augeas, so all remaining traces are now
removed.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
