Re: [Libguestfs] [Qemu-devel] debugging qemu-nbd.c
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 10:18:50AM -0400, Skippy VonDrake wrote:
Hello,
Apologies upfront if posting to this list is inappropriate.
I have an app that forks a process with calls qemu-nbd with an offset
into an image.
The app then uses libguestfs to attach the nbd device.
But it appears that qemu is failing.
When you say "qemu is failing", do you mean qemu-nbd, or the qemu
subprocess that libguestfs uses? Does it print any error?
I'm using the latest qemu sources and placed file log statements
within
qemu-nbd.c to pinpoint the problem.
The statement: " if (chdir("/") < 0)"
appears to be the culprit.
But the subsequent err() call is never reached. If I pull 'chdir' out of
the 'IF' and assign a local var to its return - execution still seems to
stop on the 'chdir'. So there is no opportunity to examine its return.
What is the best approach to debugging this section of code?
As a first step I would just add 'fprintf (stderr, ...)' straight into
the qemu-nbd.c file. Or run it under gdb.
Rich.
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