Comment 20 for bug 832507

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012, Serge Hallyn wrote:

> > Serge,
> > The reason for the qemu-kvm task is that we think qemu-kvm is really the ultimate right place to add a '-serial ringbuffer:640k,file=/path/to/file' flag.
> > All the other attempts are more hacky, but if upstream kvm had this , libvirt could expose it, and openstack could use it.
> > I do not know whether or not it would be accepted upstream.
>
> Thanks, Scott.
>
> It seems a reasonable thing for upstream to accept. We have workarounds for
> precise, right? (If not, then I should be giving this a shot right now)
> If so I'll taking a stab at this after release.

We don't have a reasonable work around really.
in 11.10 we had one that seemed to work.
in 12.04 that solution ate 100% cpu (i think) so we backed it out, i
think.

A "real" solution would be nice.

Scott