This reworks my former patch (http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/227678/ - sorry Hans, can't find the version you posted) per Gerd's suggestion. Specifically it adds a new qemu_chr_fe_post_load api that is called by the front end and implemented by the backend. virtio-console implements it, adding it's own hook which is called by virtio-serial-bus upon post_load from the timer, so that qemu_chr_fe_post_load is called when the vm is already in the running state. This makes the spice-qemu-char usage very simple by not requiring yet another timer.
Note about the added api: I decided to pass "connected" via qemu_chr_fe_post_load in order not to introduce more api on qemu_chr_fe_.. for state querying, like qemu_chr_fe_is_connected, since I'm not sure it would make sense for other frontends. v1 wasn't completely sent to the list, mistakenly sent before squashing one patch. Alon Levy (4): char: add a post_load callback virtio-serial: add a post_load callback implemented by port virtio-console: implement post_load to call to qemu_chr_fe_post_load spice-qemu-char: register interface on post load hw/virtio-console.c | 11 +++++++++++ hw/virtio-serial-bus.c | 5 +++++ hw/virtio-serial.h | 2 ++ include/char/char.h | 12 ++++++++++++ qemu-char.c | 7 +++++++ spice-qemu-char.c | 9 +++++++++ 6 files changed, 46 insertions(+) -- 1.8.1.4
