[libvirt] Virtual serial logging server?

[Dave Allan]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 04:15:57PM +0100, Jérémie Tarot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2011/11/6 Reeted <reeted at shiftmail.org>:
> > Dear all,
> > please excuse the almost-OT question,
> >
> > I see various possibilities in quemu-kvm and libvirt for sending virtual
> > serial port data to files, sockets, pipes, etc on the host.
> > In particular, the TCP socket seems interesting.
> >
> > Can you suggest a server application to receive all such TCP connections and
> > log serial data for many virtual machines at once?
> >
> > In particular I would be interested in something with quotas, i.e. something
> > that deletes old lines from the logs of a certain VM when the filesystem
> > space occupied by the serial logs of such VM gets over a certain amount of
> > space. So that the log space for other VMs is not starved in case one of
> > them loops.
> >
> 
> May be you could build something around conserver: http://www.conserver.com

I've done a PoC implementation of conserver, and it works nicely.

Dave