On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Amit Shah wrote: > On (Tue) Jun 23 2009 [13:55:52], Paul Brook wrote: > > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu > > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel. > > > > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console? > > I'm basically writing a vmchannel and found out that a lot can be shared > between some virtio devices. So I'm just trying to abstract out those > things in virtio-serial. Once we're sure virtio-serial is good and ready > to be merged, I will look at converting over virtio-console to the > virtio-serial interface.
That doesn't really answer my question. We already have a virtual serial device (called virtio-console). Why are you inventing another one? Paul _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
