Re: [Qemu-discuss] Why doesn't the "-name" option set the visible process name on Linux?

[Jakob Bohm]

On 11/21/2012 3:41 AM, Dunrong Huang wrote:
> 2012/11/20 Jakob Bohm <address@hidden>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using qemu-kvm version 1.1.2 (Debian prepackaged) with the -name
> > option, however the process name shown by tools such as top still shows
> > all the qemu processes as just "kvm" which is not very informative.
> >
> > Host kernel is Linux 3.2.0 (also Debian prepackaged)
> >
> > cat /proc/<pid>/cmdline shows that the -name option was used, but argv0
> > is still just the qemu-kvm program itself.
> >
> > The qemu man page says about the -name option "Also optionally set the
> > top visible process name in Linux.", but no details are given as to when
> > it will actually do that.
> Try "qemu -name VMName,process=ProcessName", then you can see
> "ProcessName" rather than "qemu" in top's output.

I might try, but this is not what the documentation says and what 
existing 3rd party qemu wrappers (libvirt) thus assume.

The documentation (man page) indicates that without this undocumented
extra notation, "qemu -name VMName" should do what you say "qemu -name 
VMName,process=VMName" does.

While having an option to set the process name differently might be
useful, and while keeping the current undocumented notation is the
most compatible way to do so, the logic should be changed to default
to the obvious equivalence (process name defaults to bare name option
value when -name option is present and -name *,process=* is not).



Enjoy

Jakob
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