If the -qtest command line argument is passed a string that says "use this chardev for I/O", then it will assert:
$ ./build/clang/qemu-system-i386 -chardev file,path=/dev/null,id=myid -qtest chardev:myid Unexpected error in qtest_set_chardev() at ../../softmmu/qtest.c:1011: qemu-system-i386: Cannot find character device 'qtest' Aborted (core dumped) This is because in qtest_server_init() we assume that when we create the chardev with qemu_chr_new() it will always have the name "qtest". This is true if qemu_chr_new() had to create a new chardev, but not true if one already existed and is being referred to with "chardev:myid". Use the name of the chardev we get back from qemu_chr_new() as the string to set the qtest 'chardev' property to, instead of hardcoding it to "qtest". Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- softmmu/qtest.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/softmmu/qtest.c b/softmmu/qtest.c index 34bd2a33a76..26852996b5b 100644 --- a/softmmu/qtest.c +++ b/softmmu/qtest.c @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ void qtest_server_init(const char *qtest_chrdev, const char *qtest_log, Error ** } qtest = object_new(TYPE_QTEST); - object_property_set_str(qtest, "chardev", "qtest", &error_abort); + object_property_set_str(qtest, "chardev", chr->label, &error_abort); if (qtest_log) { object_property_set_str(qtest, "log", qtest_log, &error_abort); } -- 2.34.1