[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] qemu leaving unix sockets behind after VM is shut down

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 02:34:58PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> When running qemu with something like this
> 
> -device virtio-serial \
> -chardev socket,path=/tmp/foo,server,nowait,id=foo \
> -device virtserialport,chardev=foo,name=host.port.0
> 
> the VM starts up as expected and creates a socket at /tmp/foo as expected.
> 
> However, when I shut down the VM the socket at /tmp/foo is left
> behind in the filesystem.  Basically qemu has "leaked" a file.
> 
> With something like OpenStack where we could be creating/destroying
> many VMs this could end up creating a significant number of files in
> the specified directory.
> 
> Has any thought been given to either automatically cleaning up the
> unix socket in the filesystem when qemu exits, or else supporting
> the abstract namespace for unix sockets to allow for automatic
> cleanup?

Libvirt has a special case for the monitor socket in its
qemuProcessStop() function.

Are you using the OpenStack libvirt driver?

Perhaps QEMU should support cleanup but first I think we should check
the situation with libvirt.

Stefan