On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:36:21AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> 2. The built-in 'simple' trace backend writes binary traces to >> /tmp/trace-<pid>. > > Saving files with predictable names in /tmp is usually not a good idea, > see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symlink_race. > Put them in $HOME or something like that.
Let's default to the current working directory (which it already does on Windows). If QEMU is run as a daemon or in another environment where this doesn't make sense, then it needs to be configured appropriately: $ ./configure --trace-file=/var/qemu/trace Stefan
