Hi Roman,

As this is a bug fix, we can merge it during the soft freeze.
I will pull this patch.

About the illumos build fixes, as it touches root meson, I want to see any
comments from maintainers of the build system.

Best Regards,
Kostiantyn Kostiuk.


On Mon, Nov 2, 2026 at 12:10 PM Roman Bogorodskiy <[email protected]>
wrote:

>   Oleksij Samorukov wrote:
>
> > On FreeBSD the virtio-console port is a tty, unlike Linux's
> > /dev/virtio-ports which is a character device.  It defaults to canonical
> > mode with echo and software flow control enabled, so the QGA stream
> > protocol does not work: the initial guest-sync handshake is held in the
> > line discipline and the host eventually times out.
> >
> > The existing FreeBSD-specific code only clears ECHO.  Configure the port
> > the same way as the ISA serial path: disable canonical mode, echo and
> > software flow control, and set VMIN/VTIME.  Use TCSANOW instead of
> > TCSAFLUSH so a handshake that arrives between open() and tcsetattr() is
> > not discarded.
> >
> > Tested on FreeBSD 15.1 aarch64 under UTM/QEMU.  Before the change
> > utmctl ip-address timed out and the guest received zero bytes; after the
> > change QGA commands and guest-set-time work.
> >
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Fixes: c6cd588bb3a29a831c862780631a7d2145ade5de ("qga: Add initial
> FreeBSD support")
> > Signed-off-by: Oleksij Samorukov <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  qga/channel-posix.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> Hi Kostiantyn,
>
> Sorry to pester you, but is there a chance to pull this in while we're
> still
> in a soft freeze?
>
> Possibly along with the illumos build fixes [1].
>
> 1: https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/
>
>

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