When launching a VM, if an exception happens and the VM is not initiated, it is useful to see the qemu command line that was executed and the output of that command.
Signed-off-by: Amador Pahim <apa...@redhat.com> --- scripts/qemu.py | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/qemu.py b/scripts/qemu.py index e18e8ec657..abfa3eebe9 100644 --- a/scripts/qemu.py +++ b/scripts/qemu.py @@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ class QEMUMachine(object): def launch(self): ''' - Try to launch the VM and make sure we cleanup on exception. + Try to launch the VM and make sure we cleanup and expose the + command line/output in case of exception. ''' if self.is_running(): return @@ -142,18 +143,24 @@ class QEMUMachine(object): self.shutdown() try: - self._launch() + args = None + args = self._wrapper + [self._binary] + self._base_args() + self._args + self._launch(args) self._shutdown_pending = True except: self.shutdown() + sys.stderr.write('Error launching VM.\n%s%s' % + ('Command:\n%s\n' % + ' '.join(args) if args else '', + 'Output:\n%s\n' % + ''.join(self._iolog) if self._iolog else '')) raise - def _launch(self): + def _launch(self, args): '''Launch the VM and establish a QMP connection.''' devnull = open('/dev/null', 'rb') qemulog = open(self._qemu_log_path, 'wb') self._pre_launch() - args = self._wrapper + [self._binary] + self._base_args() + self._args self._popen = subprocess.Popen(args, stdin=devnull, stdout=qemulog, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=False) self._post_launch() -- 2.13.3