Make the libvirt trace compact: libvirt API names, one error field, terse test output

The first live run showed the trace working but noisy: testr printed
ts/level/msg and the per-run constants on every line, the error text
appeared twice, host appeared twice on image-cache lines, and the Go
method name was less useful than the libvirt function it maps to.

The tracer now logs rpc=virDomainLookupByName (go-libvirt's names are the
public API names without the vir prefix), error plus libvirtError (code
name) and libvirtCode, and image.go stops re-adding host. The integration
test replaces testr with a compact logr sink: time, logger name, the rpc
as headline, then fields, with provider/host/name omitted since the first
line of the run states them. Docs and execution log updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Fable 5.1
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@@ -194,10 +194,11 @@ The provider logs through controller-runtime's logger, named `kvm`, with
- `--zap-log-level=debug` (logr V(1)): one line per provider operation
(`domain defined`, `KVM domain ensured running`, ...) **and one
`libvirt call` line per libvirt RPC**, named `kvm.libvirt`, with
`method`, the identifiers it was given (`domain`, `pool`, `volume`),
curated results (`state`, `path`, `interfaces`), `duration`, and on
failure `error` plus `libvirtCode`, `libvirtCodeName` and
`libvirtMessage`. Connection events (`libvirt host connected`, dial
`rpc` (the libvirt API function, e.g. `virDomainLookupByName`), the
identifiers it was given (`domain`, `pool`, `volume`), curated results
(`state`, `path`, `interfaces`), `duration`, and on failure `error`
plus `libvirtError` (the code name, e.g. `ErrNoDomain`) and
`libvirtCode`. Connection events (`libvirt host connected`, dial
failures, `libvirt connection dropped` with a reason) log at the same
level. A Create is about ten RPCs; a Get is four.
- `--zap-log-level=2`: the same lines also carry the domain and volume
@@ -55,3 +55,46 @@ Worth noting: the live run (`make test-integration-kvm` against beelink)
had not happened when this was written; it is what Step 7 of the KVM
provider plan is waiting on, and its output is the acceptance test for
this feature. Expected shape is in the plan's Verification section.
## Revision after the first live run — less noise, libvirt names
The first live run on beelink showed the trace working but hard to read:
`testr` printed `"ts"`, `"level"`, `"msg"` and the three per-run
constants on every line, the error text appeared twice (`error` and
`libvirtMessage`), `host` appeared twice on image-cache lines (the
logger already carried it), and `method=DomainLookupByName` was
go-libvirt's name rather than something to look up in libvirt's docs.
The user asked for "less verbose but more informative". Changes:
- The tracer's headline field is now `rpc=virDomainLookupByName`: the
public libvirt API function, which go-libvirt's method names are
exactly minus the `vir` prefix (they come from the same
`remote_protocol.x`). Not gRPC, for the record: libvirt's own
XDR-based RPC over the forwarded unix socket.
- Errors are one `error` field plus `libvirtError=ErrNoDomain` and
`libvirtCode=42`; `libvirtMessage` is gone from both the tracer and
`logAPIError`, since it is the error text.
- `image.go` no longer adds `host` to lines whose logger has it.
- The integration test replaces `testr` with a small `compactSink`
(`logr.LogSink` plus `GetCallStackHelper`, so `t.Log` still
attributes lines to `trace.go`): `HH:MM:SS.mmm libvirt
virDomainCreate domain=… duration=… error=… libvirtError=…`. The
`rpc` value becomes the headline, `provider`/`host`/`name` are
dropped (the run's first `t.Log` line states them), and values with
spaces are quoted. Production zap output is unchanged apart from the
field renames; structured logs are meant to repeat context.
Previewed by driving the sink through the fake provider with an
injected `DomainCreate` failure (a throwaway integration-tagged test,
not committed):
```
trace.go:55: 09:04:33.165 libvirt virDomainLookupByName domain=proxy-abc123def456ghij duration=4µs error="Domain not found: …" libvirtError=ErrNoDomain libvirtCode=42
trace.go:55: 09:04:33.165 libvirt virStorageVolUpload pool=default volume=proxy-abc123def456ghij-seed.iso offset=0 length=0 duration=71µs
kvm.go:262: 09:04:33.165 kvm seed volume uploaded volume=proxy-abc123def456ghij-seed.iso bytes=45056
trace.go:55: 09:04:33.165 libvirt virDomainCreate domain=proxy-abc123def456ghij duration=0s error="internal error: process exited…" libvirtError=ErrResourceBusy libvirtCode=87
```
Worth noting: `length=0` on `virStorageVolUpload` is what the provider
passes (libvirt reads to EOF); the following `seed volume uploaded`
line has the byte count.
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@@ -120,11 +120,13 @@ verified — the log says so), `KVM_TEST_IMAGE_SHA256`, `KVM_TEST_POOL`
`20m`, must cover the first-time image download), `KVM_TEST_KEEP`
to leave the VM behind for `virsh console` when something goes wrong,
and `KVM_TEST_LOG_LEVEL` (default `1`) for how much of the provider's
logging the `-v` output shows: at `1` every libvirt RPC is one
`libvirt call` line with method, identifiers, duration and error code,
interleaved with the test's own `t.Log` lines; `2` adds the domain and
volume XML, metadata and addresses; `0` leaves only `t.Log`. See the
Logging section of [kvm-provider.md](kvm-provider.md#logging).
logging the `-v` output shows: at `1` every libvirt RPC is one compact
line (`HH:MM:SS.mmm libvirt virDomainLookupByName domain=... duration=...
error=... libvirtError=ErrNoDomain`), interleaved with the test's own
`t.Log` lines; `2` adds the domain and volume XML, metadata and
addresses; `0` leaves only `t.Log`. The per-run constants (provider,
host, domain name) are left off each line. See the Logging section of
[kvm-provider.md](kvm-provider.md#logging).
What one run asserts, in order: `New` dials the host; `Create` returns a
`hosts/<host>/domains/<name>` ID (downloading the image on a cold host —