[vbox-dev] Logging

[Frank Mehnert]

Vikram,

On Thursday 31 March 2011 07:51:00 Vikram Kapoor wrote:
> What is the right way to enable logging for VirtualBox? I compiled VBox
> with LOG_ENABLED and VBOX_WITH_R0_LOGGING defined.
> 
> Then I am running VirtualBox.exe with "VBOX_LOG=+all.f.l" and
> "VBOX_LOG_DEST=file=<file_path>" environement variables set.  The file does
> get created with a single logline in it but when I run a VM, no other
> messages are logged.

Logging is normally automatically enabled in debug builds. So if you compile
VirtualBox with

  export BUILD_TYPE=debug
  kmk

then the resulting build will be able to create debug log files. However,
that build will also include a lot of assertions and additional code for
debugging which makes VirtualBox slow.

If you only want to enable logging then you have to add the following line
to LocalConfig.kmk in the root directory of the VirtualBox tree:

  DEFS += LOG_ENABLED

After doing so, you have to recompile the whole beast of course.
When running VirtualBox, make sure to do

  export VBOX_LOG=+all.e.l.f

-- the 'export' is important if you want to log the VBoxSVC server as well.
The log files are created in the current directory.

Kind regards,

Frank
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