On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:32:09PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> So what seems to be happening here is there is an implicit monitor >> being set up which grabs stdio. Because: >> >> #define STDIO_MAX_CLIENTS 1 >> >> my own -serial stdio option subsequently fails. This is a regression >> over previous behaviour. I didn't specify a monitor device, because I >> don't want one, and previous versions of qemu didn't give me one in >> nographic mode. > > They gave you a monitor too. Try typing 'Ctrl-A c' on stdio, and you'll > see. qemu tries to be more clever than you. Which sucks IMHO. But > getting rid of that without adding regressions seems to be really hard > ... > > Easiest way to workaround this is to simply not specify '-serial stdio'. > It is the default anyway for -nographic, so you don't have to.
I want to see the output of the serial port on stdio though. I don't care at all about the monitor. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html
