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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] savevm: print migration failure to stderr rathe
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Alex Williamson |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] savevm: print migration failure to stderr rather than monitor |
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Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:39:54 -0700 |
On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 09:51 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Am 07.01.2011 08:18, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > monitor_print only does anything for foreground commands, so we
> > don't ever see this error message in the case of a 'migrate -d'.
>
> Your change needlessly steals the error from the monitor console where
> it belongs if migrate is used without -d. IIRC, mon is NULL in detached
> mode, so only print to stderr if there is no alternative. Otherwise
> stick with the monitor for interactive use.
Indeed, mon is NULL. That makes this an easy
if (mon) {
monitor_printf()
} else {
fprintf()
}
But I wonder if we should put the fprintf in the monitor_printf() path
so we're not just special casing this one user. Should all
monitor_printfs go to stderr if there's no monitor? Thanks,
Alex
> > It also doesn't do much good to print a monitor error message if
> > the migration is being driven by something like libvirt. Both
>
> There is not only libvirt. Please don't destroy HMP "experience".
>
> Jan
>
> > of these seem to be the typical usage scenarios, so we might as
> > well print this error to stderr so it can at least be found in
> > the log messages.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >
> > savevm.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/savevm.c b/savevm.c
> > index 90aa237..c6b9b01 100644
> > --- a/savevm.c
> > +++ b/savevm.c
> > @@ -1543,7 +1543,7 @@ int qemu_savevm_state_complete(Monitor *mon, QEMUFile
> > *f)
> >
> > r = vmstate_save(f, se);
> > if (r < 0) {
> > - monitor_printf(mon, "cannot migrate with device '%s'\n",
> > se->idstr);
> > + fprintf(stderr, "cannot migrate with device '%s'\n",
> > se->idstr);
> > return r;
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
>
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] savevm: Fix no_migrate, Alex Williamson, 2011/01/07