Bug 961015

Summary:	Virt-viewer debug using --spice-debug in the registry is not getting enough debug information in Windows Event Viewer.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Bill Sanford <bsanford>
Component:	mingw-virt-viewer	Assignee:	Marc-Andre Lureau <marcandre.lureau>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version:	3.2.0	CC:	acathrow, cfergeau, dblechte, mkrcmari, pvine, vipatel
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Description Bill Sanford 2013-05-08 14:19:42 UTC

Description of problem:
Virt-viewer debug using --spice-debug in the registry is not getting enough debug information in Windows Event Viewer. In bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=960709, I specifically state and post debug information from the Windows Event Viewer. If I then have to run GDB to get a bt, there is not enough logging for debugging.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEV-M 3.2 (si14)
W2K8R2 client 
spice-client-msi-3.2-10 (mingw-virt-viewer 0.5.3-25).
vdagent-win-0.1-17


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above and below.
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Actual results:
Need to run GDB

Expected results:
Spice debug logs should have the debug information needed.

Additional info:

To enable debugging and save the debug log in Windows Event Viewer for SPICE:

In HK_Current_User\Software\spice-space.org\spicex\client, at the end add 
--spice-debug

Add a registry key in "HK_Local_Machine\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\EventLog\\Application\\" called VirtViewer

When you go to the Windows logs -> Filter current log -> Event sources, you will have a VirtViewer "Key" that you added.

Then you can Save the filtered logfile into a text file and you are done.

Comment 1 Marc-Andre Lureau 2013-05-08 14:49:09 UTC

Windows Event Viewer is not meant for debugging.

If you want to enable debugging on windows, there is debug-helper.

Comment 2 Andrew Cathrow 2013-07-10 01:49:45 UTC

closing based on comment #1 and the fact that need-info is open for 2 months now