Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 17:03 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
>> The guest console is useful for failure troubleshooting especially for
>> the one who has calltrace. And as we plan to push the network related
>> test in the next few weeks, we found the serial session in more
>> reliable during the network testing. So this patchset logs the guest
>> serial throught the redirectied serial of guest and also enable the
>> ability to log into guest through serial console. I only open the
>> serial console for linux, I would do some investigation on windows
>> guests.
>>
>> Change from v1:
>>
>> - Coding style improvement according to the suggestions from Michael Goldish
>> - Improve the username sending handling in remote_login()
>> - Change the matching re of login to [Ll]ogin:\s*$
>> - Check whether vm have already dead in dumpping thread
>> - Return none rather than raise exception when met unknown shell_client
>> - Keep tty0 for all linux guests
>> - Enable the serial console in unattended installation
>> - Add a helper to check whether the panic information was occured
>> - Keep the porcess() at its original location in preprocess()
>>
>
> Jason, after a long conversation I've had with Michael during the
> previous week, we reached some common points:
>
> 1 - We believe it is possible to be able to both log in *and* log serial
> console output. That will require changes to kvm_subprocess and might
> take a little bit more time.
>
Yes, I've tried a ugly implementation of a server in serial_dump_thread
( finally dropped from my patch ), so I agree that it would be much more
elegant if I can get the support from kvm_subprocess.
> 2 - We know you guys are depending on this patchset to be accepted in
> order to proceed with the network related cases. However, we ask for a
> little more patience, and we'd like to get your opinions on the patches
> that we are going to roll out. This way we can get to a better solution
> for all of us.
>
> So, please bear with us and I'll try to see with Michael and Dor if we
> can prioritize this work to not block work items for you guys.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lucas
>
>
Ok, no problem.
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