Re: [PATCH] auvirt: a new tool for reporting events related to virtual machines

I'm also suppressing the AVC records. Maybe "--all-events" or

"--show-all-events". What do you think? On 01/13/2012 05:23 PM, Steve Grubb wrote: > Hello, > > On Friday, January 13, 2012 12:25:05 PM Marcelo Cerri wrote: >> These are some output examples of auvirt. What do you think? > > I think you are on the right track. > >> I just added a "--full" option because libvirt can generate several >> resource events and this can make the output confusing. > > Hmm. Why not call it --resource if its a resource specific report? Full > to me implies everything for all guests. > >> $ ./auvirt >> start guest-name-1 root Tue Jan 10 11:05 >> stop guest-name-1 root Tue Jan 10 11:39 >> start guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 15:23 >> start guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 16:28 >> start guest-name-1 root Wed Jan 12 19:47 > > Why not collapse these into 1 line like last that shows a duration? > > start guest-name-1 root Tue Jan 10 11:05 - 11:39 (00:34) > > Do you have any samples for when a guest is paused and restarted? I would > also collapse those into a line showing the duration of the pause. > > pause guest-name-1 root Tue Jan 10 11:15 - 11:30 (00:15) > >> $ ./auvirt --show-uuid >> start guest-name-1 fb4149f5-9ff6-4095-f6d3-a1d03936fdfa root Tue Jan >> 10 11:05 >> stop guest-name-1 fb4149f5-9ff6-4095-f6d3-a1d03936fdfa root Tue Jan >> 10 11:39 >> start guest-name-2 f937029b-93ca-4e13-b40b-663f46323503 root Wed Jan >> 11 15:23 >> start guest-name-2 f937029b-93ca-4e13-b40b-663f46323503 root Wed Jan >> 11 16:28 >> start guest-name-1 fb4149f5-9ff6-4095-f6d3-a1d03936fdfa root Wed Jan >> 12 19:47 >> >> $ ./auvirt --summary # keep the same behaviour >> >> $ ./auvirt --uuid fb4149f5-9ff6-4095-f6d3-a1d03936fdfa >> start guest-name-1 root Tue Jan 10 11:05 >> stop guest-name-1 root Tue Jan 10 11:39 >> start guest-name-1 root Wed Jan 12 19:47 >> >> $ ./auvirt --vm-name guest-name-2 >> start guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 15:23 >> start guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 16:28 > > Maybe it will be easier on admin's fingers to just call the above option > --vm? I like shorter names if they make sense and are unambiguous. > >> $ ./auvirt --full --uuid f937029b-93ca-4e13-b40b-663f46323503 >> res guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 15:23 disk "?" >> "/images/guest-2.img" >> res guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 15:23 vcpu "0" "4" >> res guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 15:23 net "?" >> "52:54:00:DB:AE:B4" >> res guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 15:23 mem "?" >> "1048576" start guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 15:23 >> avc guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 19:49 read >> "/images/guest-2.img" denied >> res guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 15:23 mem "1048576" >> "2097152" >> stop guest-name-2 root Wed Jan 11 16:28 > > I would separate avcs and anomalies into a security report. Then for the > resource section, I would rearrange the fields so the time is at the end > and then show the duration so you collapse 2 lines (assignment and > disposal) into 1 line. > > For things that are disposed of at shutdown, you can just put "down" like > last does when users are logged out by the system shutdown. > > Overall, I think this is heading in the right direction. > > Thanks, > > -Steve