Re: [Libvir] RFC: Supporting serial & parallel ports for QEMU (and improving Xen)
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:12:55AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
Hi Dan,
Looks fine to me ...
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:12 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Xen we have very simple approach. When creating a guest simply add
>
> <console/>
>
> And it'll cause a serial port to be setup with an autoallocated pty, so
> you get back
>
> <console pty='/dev/pts/5'/>
>
> In retrospect calling it 'console' was dumb, but hey we're stuck with
that
> now and its only a tiny naming issue so I don't mind really.
Why not add 'serial' with the new syntax, making <serial type='pty'
/>
equivalent to <console />, and continue supporting the existing
'console' syntax?
I thought about this too, but given that it adds complexity to the XML, and
to the code & is a source of potential confusion, I just don't see that we
come out with a net win.
Dan.
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