[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] savevm: print migration failure to stderr rather than monitor

[Jan Kiszka]

Am 07.01.2011 08:18, Alex Williamson wrote:
> monitor_print only does anything for foreground commands, so we
> don't ever see this error message in the case of a 'migrate -d'.

Your change needlessly steals the error from the monitor console where
it belongs if migrate is used without -d. IIRC, mon is NULL in detached
mode, so only print to stderr if there is no alternative. Otherwise
stick with the monitor for interactive use.

> It also doesn't do much good to print a monitor error message if
> the migration is being driven by something like libvirt.  Both

There is not only libvirt. Please don't destroy HMP "experience".

Jan

> of these seem to be the typical usage scenarios, so we might as
> well print this error to stderr so it can at least be found in
> the log messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <address@hidden>
> ---
> 
>  savevm.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/savevm.c b/savevm.c
> index 90aa237..c6b9b01 100644
> --- a/savevm.c
> +++ b/savevm.c
> @@ -1543,7 +1543,7 @@ int qemu_savevm_state_complete(Monitor *mon, QEMUFile 
> *f)
>  
>          r = vmstate_save(f, se);
>          if (r < 0) {
> -            monitor_printf(mon, "cannot migrate with device '%s'\n", 
> se->idstr);
> +            fprintf(stderr, "cannot migrate with device '%s'\n", se->idstr);
>              return r;
>          }
>      }
> 
> 
>

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