if (qemu_supports (g, "-nodefconfig"))
add_cmdline (g, "-nodefconfig");
- /* qemu sometimes needs this option to enable hardware
- * virtualization, but some versions of 'qemu-kvm' will use KVM
- * regardless (even where this option appears in the help text).
- * It is rumoured that there are versions of qemu where supplying
- * this option when hardware virtualization is not available will
- * cause qemu to fail, so we we have to check at least that
- * /dev/kvm is openable. That's not reliable, since /dev/kvm
- * might be openable by qemu but not by us (think: SELinux) in
- * which case the user would not get hardware virtualization,
- * although at least shouldn't fail. A giant clusterfuck with the
- * qemu command line, again.
- */
- if (qemu_supports (g, "-enable-kvm") &&
- is_openable (g, "/dev/kvm", O_RDWR))
- add_cmdline (g, "-enable-kvm");
+ if (qemu_supports (g, "-machine")) {
+ add_cmdline (g, "-machine");
+#if QEMU_MACHINE_TYPE_IS_BROKEN
+ /* Workaround for qemu 0.15: We have to add the '[type=]pc'
+ * since there is no default. This is not a permanent solution
+ * because this only works on PC-like hardware. Other platforms
+ * like ppc would need a different machine type.
+ *
+ * This bug is fixed in qemu commit 2645c6dcaf6ea2a51a, and was
+ * not a problem in qemu < 0.15.
+ */
+ add_cmdline (g, "pc,accel=kvm:tcg");
+#else
+ add_cmdline (g, "accel=kvm:tcg");
+#endif
+ } else {
+ /* qemu sometimes needs this option to enable hardware
+ * virtualization, but some versions of 'qemu-kvm' will use KVM
+ * regardless (even where this option appears in the help text).
+ * It is rumoured that there are versions of qemu where supplying
+ * this option when hardware virtualization is not available will
+ * cause qemu to fail, so we we have to check at least that
+ * /dev/kvm is openable. That's not reliable, since /dev/kvm
+ * might be openable by qemu but not by us (think: SELinux) in
+ * which case the user would not get hardware virtualization,
+ * although at least shouldn't fail. A giant clusterfuck with the
+ * qemu command line, again.
+ */
+ if (qemu_supports (g, "-enable-kvm") &&
+ is_openable (g, "/dev/kvm", O_RDWR))
+ add_cmdline (g, "-enable-kvm");
+ }
/* Newer versions of qemu (from around 2009/12) changed the
* behaviour of monitors so that an implicit '-monitor stdio' is
guestfs___print_timestamped_argv (g, (const char **)g->cmdline);
if (!g->direct) {
- /* Set up stdin, stdout. */
+ /* Set up stdin, stdout, stderr. */
close (0);
close (1);
close (wfd[1]);
if (dup (rfd[1]) == -1)
goto dup_failed;
+ /* Particularly since qemu 0.15, qemu spews all sorts of debug
+ * information on stderr. It is useful to both capture this and
+ * not confuse casual users, so send stderr to the pipe as well.
+ */
+ close (2);
+ if (dup (rfd[1]) == -1)
+ goto dup_failed;
+
close (wfd[0]);
close (rfd[1]);
}
pid_t parent_pid = getppid ();
/* Writing to argv is hideously complicated and error prone. See:
- * http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/ps_status.c?rev=1.33.2.1;content-type=text%2Fplain
+ * http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/utils/misc/ps_status.c;hb=HEAD
*/
/* Loop around waiting for one or both of the other processes to