The patch decuples the -chardev switch and the actual chardev initialization. Without this patch qemu ignores chardev entries coming via -readconfig.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> --- vl.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index d188fc6..524b496 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -4573,6 +4573,16 @@ static int device_init_func(QemuOpts *opts, void *opaque) return 0; } +static int chardev_init_func(QemuOpts *opts, void *opaque) +{ + CharDriverState *chr; + + chr = qemu_chr_open_opts(opts, NULL); + if (!chr) + return -1; + return 0; +} + struct device_config { enum { DEV_USB, /* -usbdevice */ @@ -5193,9 +5203,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) fprintf(stderr, "parse error: %s\n", optarg); exit(1); } - if (qemu_chr_open_opts(opts, NULL) == NULL) { - exit(1); - } break; case QEMU_OPTION_serial: add_device_config(DEV_SERIAL, optarg); @@ -5506,6 +5513,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) qemu_opts_foreach(&qemu_device_opts, default_driver_check, NULL, 0); + if (qemu_opts_foreach(&qemu_chardev_opts, chardev_init_func, NULL, 1) != 0) + exit(1); + if (display_type == DT_NOGRAPHIC) { if (default_parallel) add_device_config(DEV_PARALLEL, "null"); -- 1.6.2.5