Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools: revert to using /var and /etc/

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> On 28/01/13 18:46, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> > 
> > Monday, January 28, 2013, 5:49:28 PM, you wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 10:39 +0000, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> >>>> Another thing is that:
> >>>>         $QEMU_XEN -xen-domid 0 -xen-attach -name dom0 -nographic -M
> >>>> xenpv -daemonize -monitor /dev/null -pidfile $QEMU_PIDFILE
> >>>>
> >>>> Doesn't seem to start with upstream qemu, combination of -nographic
> >>>> and -daemonize doesn't seem to be allowed anymore.
> >>>> (not a problem for me, because i don't seem to be using it as
> >>>> diskbackend, but for a 4.3 release ...) 
> >>>
> >>> Stefano, is this expected?
> >>  
> >> No, it is not. Sander, thanks for the report.
> >> This is the reason:
> > 
> >> /* According to documentation and historically, -nographic redirects
> >>  * serial port, parallel port and monitor to stdio, which does not work
> >>  * with -daemonize.  We can redirect these to null instead, but since
> >>  * -nographic is legacy, let's just error out.
> >>  * We disallow -nographic only if all other ports are not redirected
> >>  * explicitly, to not break existing legacy setups which uses
> >>  * -nographic _and_ redirects all ports explicitly - this is valid
> >>  * usage, -nographic is just a no-op in this case.
> >>  */
> > 
> >> If fact it looks like that the appended patch fixes it, can you please
> >> confirm it?
> > 
> > Confirmed thx !
> 
> Running Qemu using the -daemonize and -nographic options used to left
> the console tty in a bad state (which could be reverted by using 'stty
> sane'). Do you know if this is also fixed?

Yes, that is fixed in upstream QEMU.

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