Bug 633393 (LibvirtQEMUTrace)

Summary: RFE: Interface for controlling qemu static tracing
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.1CC: aliguori, berrange, bsarathy, dallan, eblake, gcosta, jjarvis, nobody+PNT0273897, sbest, veillard, xen-maint, yoyzhang
Target Milestone: betaKeywords: FutureFeature
Target Release: 6.1   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: All   
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Last Closed: 2011-02-02 15:27:45 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 632722, 737763    
Bug Blocks: 538808, 580566, 644849    

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2010-09-13 17:24:54 UTC
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [67240]
a. Name of Feature: [6.1 FEAT] provide libvirt interface around qemu static tracing
b. Feature Description
libvirt interface around qemu static tracing infrastructure


2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: LTC Open Virtualization
Architectures:  x86_64, 

Arch Specificity: purely common code
Affects Kernel Modules: Field does not exist
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from Community
Category: other
Request Type: Package - Update Version
d. Upstream Acceptance: Field does not exist
Sponsor Priority P3
f. Severity: normal
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: IBM code
g. Component Version Target:---

3. Business Case
providing a qemu-level tracing solution allows for better/quicker debug and problem
diagnosis/resolution resulting in lower management costs.  Customers require a libvirt interface to
interact with qemu features to isolate them from implementation details.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Michael W. Wortman, wortman.com

Technical contact(s):
PRERNA SAXENA, saxena.prerna.com

Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-10-04 16:27:08 UTC
------- Comment From rsisk.com 2010-10-04 11:14 EDT-------
Code Upstream Status: Not Started

Comment 5 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-11-15 22:02:49 UTC
------- Comment From mcintire.com 2010-11-15 16:46 EDT-------
Deferring this feature to a later release.

Comment 8 Daniel Berrangé 2011-02-02 15:27:45 UTC
Closing NOTABUG on the basis that the SystemTAP driver now included for QEMU does not actually require any API support to be present in libvirt.

Comment 9 IBM Bug Proxy 2011-03-04 15:31:31 UTC
------- Comment From mcintire.com 2011-03-04 10:30 EDT-------
IBM is quiting this feature.  The function is already in RHEL 6.1.