Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
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Jiri Denemark 6d1b3edc6e qemu: Ignore libvirt logs when reading QEMU error output
When QEMU fails to start, libvirt read its error output and reports it
back in an error message. However, when libvirtd is configured to log
debug messages, one would get the following unhelpful garbage:

    virsh # start cd
    error: Failed to start domain cd
    error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: \
      2013-04-22 14:24:54.214+0000: 2194219: debug : virFileClose:72 : \
      Closed fd 21
    2013-04-22 14:24:54.214+0000: 2194219: debug : virFileClose:72 : \
      Closed fd 27
    2013-04-22 14:24:54.215+0000: 2194219: debug : virFileClose:72 : \
      Closed fd 3
    2013-04-22 14:24:54.215+0000: 2194220: debug : virExec:602 : Run \
      hook 0x7feb8f600bf0 0x7feb86ef9300
    2013-04-22 14:24:54.215+0000: 2194220: debug : qemuProcessHook:2507 \
      : Obtaining domain lock
    2013-04-22 14:24:54.216+0000: 2194220: debug : \
      virDomainLockProcessStart:170 : plugin=0x7feb780261f0 \
      dom=0x7feb7802a360 paused=1 fd=0x7feb86ef8ec4
    2013-04-22 14:24:54.216+0000: 2194220: debug : \
      virDomainLockManagerNew:128 : plugin=0x7feb780261f0 \
      dom=0x7feb7802a360 withResources=1
    2013-04-22 14:24:54.216+0000: 2194220: debug : \
      virLockManagerPluginGetDriver:297 : plugin=0x7feb780261f0
    2013-04-22 14:24:54.216+0000: 2194220: debug : \
      virLockManagerNew:321 : driver=0x7feb8ef08640 type=0 nparams=5 \
      params=0x7feb86ef8d60 flags=0
    2013-04-22 14:24:54.216+000

instead of (the output with this patch applied):

    virsh # start cd
    error: Reconnected to the hypervisor
    error: Failed to start domain cd
    error: internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: \
      char device redirected to /dev/pts/33 (label charserial0)
    qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/home/vm/systemrescuecd-x86-1.2.0.\
      iso,if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw,cache=none: \
      could not open disk image /home/vm/systemrescuecd-x86-1.2.0.iso: \
      Permission denied
2013-04-22 20:13:40 +02:00
.gnulib@92f3a4c8e5 maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-04-15 10:25:30 -06:00
build-aux Document bracket whitespace rules & add syntax-check rule 2012-11-02 14:00:32 +00:00
daemon docs: fix usage of 'onto' 2013-04-19 14:31:16 -06:00
docs docs: fix usage of 'onto' 2013-04-19 14:31:16 -06:00
examples Re-add DTrace probes on 'dispose' functions 2013-03-14 12:42:21 +00:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-01-02 09:38:30 -07:00
include syntax-check: Only allows to include public headers in external tools 2013-04-18 11:31:19 +08:00
m4 Don't enable -fPIE on Win32 platforms 2013-04-15 17:35:30 +01:00
po Helper functions for host TPM support 2013-04-12 16:55:45 -04:00
python docs: fix usage of 'onto' 2013-04-19 14:31:16 -06:00
src qemu: Ignore libvirt logs when reading QEMU error output 2013-04-22 20:13:40 +02:00
tests docs: fix usage of 'onto' 2013-04-19 14:31:16 -06:00
tools virsh-domain: Refactor cmdVcpucount and fix output on inactive domains 2013-04-19 14:02:10 +02:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore Add a test suite for cgroups functionality 2013-04-15 17:35:31 +01:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Add John Ferlan to the committers list 2013-02-05 10:59:32 -05:00
autobuild.sh Disable static libraries by default 2013-04-03 11:02:27 +01:00
autogen.sh build: fix incremental autogen.sh when no AUTHORS is present 2012-12-03 14:59:09 -07:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-04-09 14:22:09 -06:00
bootstrap.conf build: more mingw fixes 2013-02-15 15:45:52 -07:00
cfg.mk syntax-check: Only allows to include public headers in external tools 2013-04-18 11:31:19 +08:00
ChangeLog-old virterror.c: Fix several spelling mistakes 2012-02-03 11:32:51 -07:00
configure.ac Add an API for re-mounting cgroups, to isolate the process location 2013-04-15 17:35:32 +01:00
COPYING.LIB Update to COPYING.LIB to latest LGPLv2.1 copy 2013-03-15 10:50:32 +01:00
HACKING docs: fix usage of 'onto' 2013-04-19 14:31:16 -06:00
libvirt.pc.in build: silence warning from autoconf 2012-05-30 09:22:02 -06:00
libvirt.spec.in spec: Require pod2man when running autoreconf 2013-04-08 16:11:16 +02:00
Makefile.am build: Fix AUTHORS generation 2012-12-17 21:17:55 +01:00
Makefile.nonreentrant Ban use of all inet_* functions 2010-10-22 11:59:23 +01:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in test: Return Libvirt logo as domain screenshot 2013-04-02 14:38:56 +02:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
run.in run: license as LGPL 2013-02-23 14:03:19 -07:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         LibVirt : simple API for virtualization

  Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>