X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Flaunch.c;h=310a88dd7b2f03b4be76c853b870badfe9b44785;hb=7e484865894b98de7a976a688c19e64bdd13dade;hp=a4dc98f1e5d3b0cafab3d99c828758c214f58faf;hpb=1700f8fc7482bd73efd37709d301d76f610720fb;p=libguestfs.git

diff --git a/src/launch.c b/src/launch.c
index a4dc98f..310a88d 100644
--- a/src/launch.c
+++ b/src/launch.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 
 #include "c-ctype.h"
 #include "glthread/lock.h"
+#include "ignore-value.h"
 
 #include "guestfs.h"
 #include "guestfs-internal.h"
@@ -625,7 +626,7 @@ launch_appliance (guestfs_h *g)
       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]);
@@ -641,6 +642,14 @@ launch_appliance (guestfs_h *g)
       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]);
     }
@@ -680,7 +689,7 @@ launch_appliance (guestfs_h *g)
       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
@@ -1022,6 +1031,7 @@ guestfs___print_timestamped_message (guestfs_h *g, const char *fs, ...)
   free (msg);
 }
 
+static int test_qemu_cmd (guestfs_h *g, const char *cmd, char **ret);
 static int read_all (guestfs_h *g, FILE *fp, char **ret);
 
 /* Test qemu binary (or wrapper) runs, and do 'qemu -help' and
@@ -1034,38 +1044,48 @@ test_qemu (guestfs_h *g)
   char cmd[1024];
   FILE *fp;
 
+  free (g->qemu_help);
+  g->qemu_help = NULL;
+  free (g->qemu_version);
+  g->qemu_version = NULL;
+
   snprintf (cmd, sizeof cmd, "LC_ALL=C '%s' -nographic -help", g->qemu);
 
-  fp = popen (cmd, "r");
   /* qemu -help should always work (qemu -version OTOH wasn't
    * supported by qemu 0.9).  If this command doesn't work then it
    * probably indicates that the qemu binary is missing.
    */
-  if (!fp) {
-    /* XXX This error is never printed, even if the qemu binary
-     * doesn't exist.  Why?
-     */
-  error:
+  if (test_qemu_cmd (g, cmd, &g->qemu_help) == -1) {
     perrorf (g, _("%s: command failed: If qemu is located on a non-standard path, try setting the LIBGUESTFS_QEMU environment variable."), cmd);
     return -1;
   }
 
-  if (read_all (g, fp, &g->qemu_help) == -1)
-    goto error;
-
-  if (pclose (fp) == -1)
-    goto error;
-
   snprintf (cmd, sizeof cmd, "LC_ALL=C '%s' -nographic -version 2>/dev/null",
             g->qemu);
 
+  /* Intentionally ignore errors from qemu -version. */
+  ignore_value (test_qemu_cmd (g, cmd, &g->qemu_version));
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+static int
+test_qemu_cmd (guestfs_h *g, const char *cmd, char **ret)
+{
+  FILE *fp;
+
   fp = popen (cmd, "r");
-  if (fp) {
-    /* Intentionally ignore errors. */
-    read_all (g, fp, &g->qemu_version);
+  if (fp == NULL)
+    return -1;
+
+  if (read_all (g, fp, ret) == -1) {
     pclose (fp);
+    return -1;
   }
 
+  if (pclose (fp) != 0)
+    return -1;
+
   return 0;
 }