On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 09:59:54 +0100, Michal Prívozník wrote:On 2/9/23 09:36, Peter Krempa wrote:Well, the stdout/err FDs can be passed to virtlogd so that the output is in the appropriate log file and rotated as needed.On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 18:13:10 -0500, Laine Stump wrote:It does: -e, --stderr Log to stderr too default: log to system logger only if started from a TTY -l, --log-file PATH Log (only) to given file --log-size BYTES Maximum size of log file default: 1 MiB Maybe, we can keep the errfd and let our event loop read from it? But that looks like a stretch, unnecessary - what would we do with the error if it's reported after guest is started, there's no client connected and no API running? The best we could do is to relay the error into our logs. Which is probably as good as '-l' option then.I initially had the passt process being started in an identical fashion to the slirp-helper - libvirt was daemonizing the new process and recording its pid in a pidfile. The problem with this is that, since it is daemonized immediately, any startup error in passt happens after the daemonization, and thus isn't seen by libvirt - libvirt believes that the process has started successfully and continues on its merry way. The result was that sometimes a guest would be started, but there would be no passt process for qemu to use for network traffic. Instead, we should be starting passt in the same manner we start dnsmasq - we just exec it as normal (along with a request that passt create the pidfile, which is just another option on the passt commandline) and wait for the child process to exit; passt then has a chance to parse its commandline and complete all the setup prior to daemonizing itself; if it encounters an error and exits with a non-0 code, libvirt will see the code and know about the failure. We can then grab the output from stderr, log that so the "user" has some idea of what went wrong, and then fail the guest startup. Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)redhat.com> --- src/qemu/qemu_passt.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)[..]if (cmdret < 0 || exitstatus != 0) { virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, - _("Could not start 'passt'. exitstatus: %d"), exitstatus); + _("Could not start 'passt': %s"), errbuf); goto error; }So the 'passt' binary doesn't do any logging later on during runtime which we'd have to capture into a specific log file?BTW: I don't see us passing --stderr. Is that intentional? Maybe I don't understand the default.I don't know the default either, but in this case logging to the system journal would be not very good as it would be hard for the user to identify which instance the log belongs to.