[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#683269: Bug#683269: please show kvm command line and give a possibility to change it for debugging

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:14:05PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: libvirt
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would love to be able to see the KVM command line that libvirt is
> going to invoke when starting the VM. A possibility to alter the
> command line before the VM is started would greatly ease debugging.
> 
> All this can be accomplished by wrapping the KVM binary, but that's an
> ugly hack. Please consider providing a clearer method of debugging
> libvirt and KVM.

You can pass command line arguments via <qemu:commandline> and the used
command line is in a separate log file.
Cheers,
 -- Guido