Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:03:54 +0530 | From | Amit Shah <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication |
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On (Tue) Sep 29 2009 [12:09:25], Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Am Dienstag 29 September 2009 11:24:31 schrieb Amit Shah: > > OK; how I solved this is: a new internal message between the guest and > > the host. If a host is a console port, the host has to indicate that by > > passing a message to the guest and the guest then hooks it up with hvc. > > I am curious how you going to make this compatible with existing code that > currently uses virtio console.
I've tested old qemu new kernel, new qemu old kernel, new qemu, new kernel and all the cases work fine.
Please see the virtcons_probe() function for the details.
Amit
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