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SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication
Amit Shah wrote:
> Hey Greg,
>
> Can you tell me how this could work out -- each console port could have
> a "role" string associated with it (obtainable from the invoking qemu
> process in case of qemu/kvm). Something that I have in mind currently
> is:
>
> $ qemu-kvm ... -virtioconsole role=org/qemu/clipboard
>
> and then the guest kernel sees the string, and puts the
> "org/qemu/clipboard" in some file in sysfs. Guest userspace should then
> be able to open and read/write to
>
> /dev/virtio_console/org/qemu/clipboard
>

That's probably not what we want. I imagine what we want is:

/dev/ttyV0
/dev/ttyV1
/dev/ttyVN

And then we want:

/sys/class/virtio-console/ttyV0/name -> "org.qemu.clipboard"

Userspace can detect when new virtio-consoles appear via udev events.
When it sees a new ttyVN, it can then look in sysfs to discover it's name.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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