[fedora-virt] Is this possible in F13?

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) Mar 23 2010 [11:03:05], Li Ming wrote:
> On 03/22/2010 05:52 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
>> On (Mon) Mar 22 2010 [16:46:12], Li Ming wrote:
>>> Greetings Amit,
>>
>> Hello Li,
>>
>>
>>>       I tried to find you on IRC, but you seemed to be not there.We are
>>
>> I'm available as 'amitshah' on freenode and 'amit' on oftc.
>>
>>> very interested in virtio-serial. I just want to know this is possible
>>> for current anaconda of F13:
>>> Install F13 in KVM, during install,anaconda will create the log in
>>> /tmp/anaconda.log, can we get this file(anaconda.log) or the content of
>>> this file via virtio-serial in host? I mean while anaconda is generating
>>> logs in /tmp/anaconda.log in guest ,we can get this log in host at the
>>> same time.
>>
>> We'll need some co-operation by the anaconda folks and libvirt /
>> virt-manager for this.
>>
>> If Anaconda can successfully open something like
>>
>>    /dev/virtio-ports/org.fedoraproject.anaconda.log
>>
>> then the logs could be routed directly to the host.
>>
>> Libvirt/virt-manager could spawn a virtio-serial port that connects to
>> some socket on the host (tcp/udp/unix domain sockets).
>>
>> It should be possible on a F13 guest image with qemu-kvm from
>> virt-preview. (I don't know if the relevant changes have been pushed to
>> F12 yet.)
>
> If it works on F13, do we have some specific steps?
> 1. how to tell anaconda to open /dev/virio-ports/...ananconda.log,pass  
> some args during boot? or this is default?

This will need changes in the anaconda code.

> 2. What command can create guest with virtio-serial port which is  
> required to route logs.

See the page at 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial

for usage.

>> In fact, someone from the Anaconda team had contacted me for doing such
>> a thing but I don't think it has moved forward at all. CC'ing the
>> anaconda-devel list (and I hope it's not moderated).
>>
>
> I want to know this too, who can tell us the progress?

Someone from the anaconda team -- additionally CC'ing David Cantrell.

		Amit