This patch paves the way for adding a hypervisor console, useful on systems that
support one out of the box yet don't have either serial port or virtio console
support (e.g. kernels expecting POWER SPAPR).
Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <m...@ozlabs.org>
---
tools/kvm/builtin-run.c | 8 ++++++--
tools/kvm/include/kvm/term.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c b/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c
index 68a3246..c067685 100644
--- a/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c
+++ b/tools/kvm/builtin-run.c
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN('\0', "rng", &virtio_rng, "Enable virtio Random Number
Generator"),
OPT_CALLBACK('\0', "9p", NULL, "dir_to_share,tag_name",
"Enable virtio 9p to share files between host and guest",
virtio_9p_rootdir_parser),
- OPT_STRING('\0', "console", &console, "serial or virtio",
+ OPT_STRING('\0', "console", &console, "serial, virtio or hv",
"Console to use"),
OPT_STRING('\0', "dev", &dev, "device_file", "KVM device file"),
OPT_CALLBACK('\0', "tty", NULL, "tty id",
@@ -776,8 +776,12 @@ int kvm_cmd_run(int argc, const char **argv, const char
*prefix)
if (!strncmp(console, "virtio", 6))
active_console = CONSOLE_VIRTIO;
- else
+ else if (!strncmp(console, "serial", 6))
active_console = CONSOLE_8250;
+ else if (!strncmp(console, "hv", 2))
+ active_console = CONSOLE_HV;
+ else
+ pr_warning("No console!");
if (!host_ip)
host_ip = DEFAULT_HOST_ADDR;
diff --git a/tools/kvm/include/kvm/term.h b/tools/kvm/include/kvm/term.h
index 938c26f..a6a9822 100644
--- a/tools/kvm/include/kvm/term.h
+++ b/tools/kvm/include/kvm/term.h
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#define CONSOLE_8250 1
#define CONSOLE_VIRTIO 2
+#define CONSOLE_HV 3
int term_putc_iov(int who, struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, int term);
int term_getc_iov(int who, struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, int term);
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