[libvirt] [PATCH] monitor-proxy: Tool for testing qemu monitor interaction

[Eric Blake]

On 07/01/2011 08:07 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> It has two modes, normal and interactive.  In normal mode, messages are
> passed from libvirt to qemu and back as they come and copyied to stdout
> so that one can monitor the communication.

Cool!  But post-0.9.3, so I haven't reviewed the patch itself yet.

> To start monitor-proxy one needs to follow the following steps:
> - start a domain
> - run monitor-proxy [-i] <monitor socket path>
>     for example: monitor-proxy /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/vm1.monitor
> - restart libvirtd (this makes libvirtd disconnect from qemu and
>   reconnect to the proxy)

Sounds like it would be useful to add a libvirt API (perhaps under the
qemu namespace, similar to our existing 'virsh qemu-monitor-command'
extensions, and thus not officially supported) to force libvirt to
reconnect to a monitor socket without having to restart all of libvirtd.

> monitor-proxy supports libvirtd restarts, i.e., if libvirtd disconnects,
> the proxy just waits until it reconnects again.  Stopping the proxy
> while libvirtd is running kills the domain since libvirtd sees monitor
> EOF.  To stop using monitor-proxy without killing the domain, one needs
> to stop libvirtd, stop monitor-proxy, and start libvirtd.

Again, a libvirt monitor-reconnect command would be handy.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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