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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [2/5] put xen console message into syslog



On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:07:28PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
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> 
> 
> On 20/10/06 5:52 pm, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> [2/5] add xenlogd daemon for xen console logging
> > 
> > Why have yet another daemon running in Dom0? We've already got xenconsoled
> > reading this data from the guest ring buffers, so it strikes me it'd be
> > better to just add a command line flag to that existing daemon to make
> > it log stuff to syslog directly.
> 
> I assume this is for Xen's own logging output ('xm dmesg'). Still, it would
> fairly natural to extend xenconsoled with a new 'backend type' that can read
> the logging data from Xen.

Ah yes, I didn't look closely enough to see it was the hypervisor logs
rather than guest logs. We certainly could also benefit from having the
guest consoles persistently logged in the host too.

Dan.
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