Amit Shah wrote: > This patch migrates virtio-console to the qdev infrastructure and > creates a new virtio-serial bus on which multiple ports are exposed as > devices. The bulk of the code now resides in a new file with > virtio-console.c being just a simple qdev device. > > This interface enables spawning of multiple virtio consoles as well as generic > serial ports. > > The older -virtconsole argument still works, but when using the new > functionality, it is recommended to use > > -device virtio-serial-pci -device virtconsole,... > > The virtconsole device type accepts a chardev as an argument and a 'name' > argument to identify the corresponding consoles on the host as well as the > guest. The name, if given, is exposed via the 'name' sysfs attribute in the > guest. > > Care has been taken to ensure compatibility with kernels that do not > support multiple ports as well as accepting incoming migrations from older > qemu versions. > > Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com> >
Please split this patch. I got dizzy after only reading 1/4th of it :-). Alex
