[Spice-devel] [spice-server] doc: Document G_MESSAGES_DEBUG use

Frediano Ziglio fziglio at redhat.com
Wed Feb 6 13:34:48 UTC 2019


> Explain how to get more verbose logs out of spice-server
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/manual/manual.txt | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/manual/manual.txt b/docs/manual/manual.txt
> index 99f6a5c84..312df8c5c 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/manual.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/manual.txt
> @@ -1203,10 +1203,19 @@ Server side
>  
>  If the virtual machine was started using QEMU directly, SPICE server logs
>  will be output to
>  your console stdout.
> +
>  When using libvirt, logs are located in `/var/log/libvirt/qemu/` for the
>  qemu
>  system instance (`qemu:///system`), and in `~/.cache/libvirt/qemu/log` for
>  the
>  qemu session instance (`qemu:///session`).
>  
> +It's possible to get more verbose output by setting the `G_MESSAGES_DEBUG`
> +environment variable to `Spice` or `all` before starting QEMU.
> +

Would it be useful to put a link to GLib documentation about this
setting?

> +When using libvirt, the environment variable needs to be set from the XML
> +domain definition as described in
> +https://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html#qemucommand[libvirt documentation].
> +
> +
>  Client side
>  -----------
>  

Otherwise,
   Acked-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com>


Frediano


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