[libvirt-users] console type tcp with logging

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 12:34:54AM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> пт, 30 нояб. 2018 г. в 12:43, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 08:57:54PM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> > > чт, 29 нояб. 2018 г. в 18:23, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 06:19:43PM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> > > > > Hi! I want to have ability to connect to guest console via libvirt api
> > > > > (and expose this data to xtermjs via websocket) with getty tty. And
> > > > > also i want to have log of tty1 (do log grub, kernel booting and
> > > > > errors).
> > > > > What i need to do in libvirt xml for such case?
> > > >
> > > > XML is described here
> > > >
> > > > https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole
> > > >
> > > > In particular regardless of what backend type you use for the
> > > > seral port, you can add logging using
> > > >
> > > >   <log file="/var/log/libvirt/qemu/guestname-serial0.log" append="off"/>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks! Does it possible to read this log via libvirt api?
> >
> > No, not at this time.
> >
> 
> Thanks! Do you have some plans to add this ability or patches welcome? =)

We don't have any plans to add it, but if someone's interested we'd
accept patches. It would need to integrate with our virStream APIs
to allow download, in similar way to how virStorageVolDownload() works


Regards,
Daniel
-- 
|: https://berrange.com      -o-    https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :|
|: https://libvirt.org         -o-            https://fstop138.berrange.com :|
|: https://entangle-photo.org    -o-    https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|