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authorOlga Krishtal <okrishtal@virtuozzo.com>2015-12-04 09:42:04 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-12-17 17:33:47 +0100
commit31e38a22a0c5a25646f966f001e1f5513d5a186d (patch)
treec78d9100a49558ba081de7f087b759728d8684b2 /qemu-char.c
parent15eafc2e602ff8c37c6e132eb8c63fec8fc17175 (diff)
qemu-char: append opt to stop truncation of serial file
Our QA team wants to preserve serial output of the guest in between QEMU runs to perform post-analysis. By default this behavior is off (file is truncated each time QEMU is started or device is plugged). Signed-off-by: Olga Krishtal <okrishtal@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org> CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1449211324-17856-1-git-send-email-den@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-char.c')
-rw-r--r--qemu-char.c14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-char.c b/qemu-char.c
index 2969c44e84..66703e3f0a 100644
--- a/qemu-char.c
+++ b/qemu-char.c
@@ -3484,6 +3484,9 @@ static void qemu_chr_parse_file_out(QemuOpts *opts, ChardevBackend *backend,
}
backend->u.file = g_new0(ChardevFile, 1);
backend->u.file->out = g_strdup(path);
+
+ backend->u.file->has_append = true;
+ backend->u.file->append = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "append", false);
}
static void qemu_chr_parse_stdio(QemuOpts *opts, ChardevBackend *backend,
@@ -4041,6 +4044,9 @@ QemuOptsList qemu_chardev_opts = {
},{
.name = "chardev",
.type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
+ },{
+ .name = "append",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
},
{ /* end of list */ }
},
@@ -4101,7 +4107,13 @@ static CharDriverState *qmp_chardev_open_file(const char *id,
ChardevFile *file = backend->u.file;
int flags, in = -1, out;
- flags = O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT | O_BINARY;
+ flags = O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_BINARY;
+ if (file->has_append && file->append) {
+ flags |= O_APPEND;
+ } else {
+ flags |= O_TRUNC;
+ }
+
out = qmp_chardev_open_file_source(file->out, flags, errp);
if (out < 0) {
return NULL;