On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 at 07:15, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Looks like this one fell through the cracks. > > Octavian Purdila <ta...@google.com> writes: > > > Add path option to the pty char backend which will create a symbolic > > link to the given path that points to the allocated PTY. > > > > This avoids having to make QMP or HMP monitor queries to find out what > > the new PTY device path is. > > QMP commands chardev-add and chardev-change return the information you > want: > > # @pty: name of the slave pseudoterminal device, present if and only > # if a chardev of type 'pty' was created > > So does HMP command chardev-add. HMP chardev apparently doesn't, but > that could be fixed. > > So, the use case is basically the command line, right?
> The feature feels rather doubtful to me, to be honest. The command line is an important use-case, though. Not every user of QEMU is libvirt with a QMP/HMP connection readily to hand that they would prefer to use for all configuration... -- PMM
