I'm trying to replace --nographic sticking the console on the first serial port with a virtio-based console, and unfortunately the documentation seems nonexistent. qemu --help just says "--virtioconsole c", but that complains about an inability to run an ioctl on something.
The qemu web docs say that --virtioconsole has been replaced by --device virtconsole but has no other mention of the word "virtconsole" anywhere else on the page: http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html And trying it says: qemu-system-x86_64: -device virtconsole: No 'virtio-serial-bus' bus found for device 'virtconsole' Google brings up serveral fedora pages involving patches for specifying devices in some kind of XML: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-July/msg00589.html And of course this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial Which seems to document how to connect virtio to a file (pty? Socket?) on the host, rather than to the host's stdin/stdout or to the consoles in the SDL window. Am I mising something obvious? Is there a way to do this, or is the feature either designed for something other than I'm attempting or not finished yet? Rob
