qemu-char: append opt to stop truncation of serial file

Our QA team wants to preserve serial output of the guest in between QEMU
runs to perform post-analysis.

By default this behavior is off (file is truncated each time QEMU is
started or device is plugged).

Signed-off-by: Olga Krishtal <okrishtal@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1449211324-17856-1-git-send-email-den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Olga Krishtal 2015-12-04 09:42:04 +03:00 committed by Paolo Bonzini
parent 15eafc2e60
commit 31e38a22a0
2 changed files with 17 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -3102,11 +3102,14 @@
#
# @in: #optional The name of the input file
# @out: The name of the output file
# @append: #optional Open the file in append mode (default false to
# truncate) (Since 2.6)
#
# Since: 1.4
##
{ 'struct': 'ChardevFile', 'data': { '*in' : 'str',
'out' : 'str' } }
'out' : 'str',
'*append': 'bool' } }
##
# @ChardevHostdev:

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@ -3484,6 +3484,9 @@ static void qemu_chr_parse_file_out(QemuOpts *opts, ChardevBackend *backend,
}
backend->u.file = g_new0(ChardevFile, 1);
backend->u.file->out = g_strdup(path);
backend->u.file->has_append = true;
backend->u.file->append = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "append", false);
}
static void qemu_chr_parse_stdio(QemuOpts *opts, ChardevBackend *backend,
@ -4041,6 +4044,9 @@ QemuOptsList qemu_chardev_opts = {
},{
.name = "chardev",
.type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
},{
.name = "append",
.type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
},
{ /* end of list */ }
},
@ -4101,7 +4107,13 @@ static CharDriverState *qmp_chardev_open_file(const char *id,
ChardevFile *file = backend->u.file;
int flags, in = -1, out;
flags = O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT | O_BINARY;
flags = O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_BINARY;
if (file->has_append && file->append) {
flags |= O_APPEND;
} else {
flags |= O_TRUNC;
}
out = qmp_chardev_open_file_source(file->out, flags, errp);
if (out < 0) {
return NULL;