[libvirt] question about virtlogd service restart

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 02:50:52PM +0800, Wang King wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I found that virtlogd cannot write qemu log and serial log anymore after
> restart it. It's because of the file descriptor which qemu connected to the
> virtlogd is broken, and cannot be reconnect after virtlogd restarted.
> 
> Is this expected behavior or unresolved issue?

It is expected - never restart it while QEMU is running. virtlogd has
support for 're-exec' which allows it to have its code updated while
keeping all file descriptors open.


Regards,
Daniel
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