[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-common 0/4] RFC: add structured logging and log category

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

----- Original Message -----
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:45:20AM +0200, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
> > > 5. The spice_log_init deals with hard-coded variables in a
> > > hard-coded way. I purposely had a function taking a string, and
> > > called either with env vars or command line options. I was thinking
> > > long-term about other inputs, notably the client being able to send
> > > debug options to the server.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Whoo, client sending debug options to the server? That is quite strange.
> > 
> > What I would like is to be able to enable collection of debug
> > information (ideally on a per-session basis) without having to restart
> > the server. Is that strange?

"enabling a collection of debug information" at run-time could be done through a server API, exposed as a QMP command (or other interface for other servers). I don't think the client & SPICE protocol should have this admin/debug feature.

> Let's first see if we manage to add useful debug logs to both the client
> and the server, then we can look into adding this :) In the mean time,
> this will probably be possible to do through a gdb script.