Bug 1420205
| Summary: | For console device, default value of append attribute is not consistent with the document | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | yalzhang <yalzhang> |
| Component: | libvirt | Assignee: | Peter Krempa <pkrempa> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Jingjing Shao <jishao> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | chhu, dcallagh, jishao, jracek, jstancek, pkrempa, rbalakri, xuzhang |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | libvirt-3.1.0-1.el7 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2017-08-01 17:21:45 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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The default value is treated differently when we use virtlogd instead of the default backend where ommiting the argument would by default truncate the file. Fixed upstream:
commit 215a8a976466117104d216f1f336c2c3ad51d010
Author: Peter Krempa <pkrempa>
Date: Wed Mar 1 18:15:05 2017 +0100
qemu: command: Truncate the chardev logging file even if append is not present
Our documentation states that the chardev logging file is truncated
unless append='on' is specified. QEMU also behaves the same way and
truncates the file unless we provide the argument. The new virlogd
implementation did not honor if the argument was missing and continued
to append to the file.
Truncate the file even when the 'append' attribute is not present to
behave the same with both implementations and adhere to the docs.
I'm seeing 2 issues that might be consequence of this change, strangely enough only on powerpc: 1. Bug 1437501 - avc: denied { unlink } for pid=11477 comm="virtlogd" scontext=system_u:system_r:virtlogd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 2. it breaks guest log monitor/uploader in Beaker core task /distribution/virt/install. Daemon which monitors guest console log is left with fd, that's no longer getting any updates. Guests are installed via virt-install, which generates XML automatically. Is there a way to restore back append behaviour that is backwards compatible up to RHEL5? Created a separate BZ for issue 2 mentioned in comment #5. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1441751 Verify this bug as below
# rpm -q libvirt
libvirt-3.2.0-3.el7.x86_64
# virsh dumpxml V | grep serial -A5
<serial type='file'>
<source path='/var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log'/>
<target port='0'/>
<alias name='serial0'/>
</serial>
<console type='file'>
<source path='/var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log'/>
<target type='serial' port='0'/>
<alias name='serial0'/>
</console>
# ll /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log
ls: cannot access /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log: No such file or directory
# virsh start V
Domain V started
# cat /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log
....
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.4 Beta (Maipo)
Kernel 3.10.0-611.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64
# virsh destroy V
Domain V destroyed
# virsh start V
Domain V started
# cat /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log
.....
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.4 Beta (Maipo)
Kernel 3.10.0-611.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64
The result is as expected
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2017:1846 Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2017:1846 |
Description of problem: In the document, it is said that the default value for append is 'off', but if omit this attribute, we get the default performance is the same as append='on', which is not consistent with the document. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-2.5.0-1.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. prepare a guest with console type='file', and omit the append attribute for the source element. # virsh dumpxml rhel7.4 | grep /console -B7 <serial type='file'> <source path='/var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log'/> <target port='0'/> </serial> <console type='file'> <source path='/var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log'/> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> 2. # ll /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log ls: cannot access /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log: No such file or directory 3. # virsh start rhel7.4 Domain rhel7.4 started 4. when start the guest, the fresh log file is created # cat /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log 5. after the guest boot completed， check the log file # cat /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 (Maipo) Kernel 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64 localhost login: [root@server7 ~]# 6. destroy and start the guest again # virsh destroy rhel7.4 Domain rhel7.4 destroyed # cat /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 (Maipo) Kernel 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64 localhost login: [root@server7 ~]# # virsh start rhel7.4 Domain rhel7.4 started 7. When restart the guest, the log is appended, the performance is the same as append='on' # cat /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 (Maipo) Kernel 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64 localhost login: [root@server7 ~]# # cat /var/log/libvirt/vm-serial.log Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 (Maipo) Kernel 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64 localhost login: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 (Maipo) Kernel 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 on an x86_64 localhost login: [root@server7 ~]# 8. In the libvirt.org http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole and file:///usr/share/doc/libvirt-docs-2.5.0/html/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole It is said that the default value is 'off'. " If the interface type presented to the host is "file", then the source element may contain an optional attribute append that specifies whether or not the information in the file should be preserved on domain restart. Allowed values are "on" and ** "off" (default)** . Since 1.3.1. " Actual results: The default performance (append='on') is not consistent with the document (default is 'off'). Expected results: The default performance is not append the log info, or the 'default value is on' specified in the document. Additional info: N/A