From 8b2e60ce4b46e86da093ee64d4e0b0ae3c998d55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:07:30 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] appliance: Capture stderr from qemu to the event system. --- src/launch.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/launch.c b/src/launch.c index a2a9bea..c89c69f 100644 --- a/src/launch.c +++ b/src/launch.c @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ 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 +641,14 @@ 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]); } -- 1.8.3.1