On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 at 19:10, David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-11-07 at 14:15 +0400, marcandre.lur...@redhat.com wrote: > > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> > > > > If a display is backed by a specialized VC, allow to override the > > default "vc:80Cx24C". > > > > As suggested by Paolo, if the display doesn't implement a VC (get_vc() > > returns NULL), use a fallback that will use a muxed console on stdio. > > > > This changes the behaviour of "qemu -display none", to create a muxed > > serial/monitor by default (on TTY & not daemonized). > > > > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > > Hrm. This breaks the command line documented at > https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/i386/xen.html > > $ ./qemu-system-x86_64 --accel kvm,xen-version=0x40011,kernel-irqchip=split \ > -display none -chardev stdio,mux=on,id=char0,signal=off -mon char0 \ > -device xen-console,chardev=char0 -drive file=${GUEST_IMAGE},if=xen > > qemu-system-x86_64: cannot use stdio by multiple character devices > qemu-system-x86_64: could not connect serial device to character backend > 'stdio' > > Can we make it create a Xen console by default, instead of a serial > port? And/or make it *not* use stdio if something else on the command > line already does?
I have filed this in QEMU's bug tracker so it's not forgotten: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1974 Here is the list of open 8.2 bugs: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/milestones/10 Stefan
