Re: [libvirt] virtio console: name=foo is not supported

>> In addition, the QEMU guest agent requires specified socket. Virt IO >> Console, too. But unfortunately libvirt does not support to xml tags >> to give socket name options to QEMU for the QEMU guest agent and >> Virt IO Console. > > Err, yes we do. > > <channel type='unix'> > <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/f16x86_64.agent'/> > <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> > </channel> Yes, I confirmed that it can create the socket for guest agent and communicate to guest. > Or for the console > > <console type='unix'> > <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/f16x86_64.console'/> > <target type='virtio'/> > </channel> > > though you really want to use type=pty for consoles, so that 'virsh console' > works correctly. > > Daniel But It is not enough. Because I use the socket for VirtIO console, i.e. gives the option '-device virtconsole,chardev=...,name=foo' for qemu. And I read the source code, but found funny... In src/conf/domain_conf.h, struct _virDomainChrDef is struct _virDomainChrDef { ... union { int port; /* parallel, serial, console */ virSocketAddrPtr addr; /* guestfwd */ char *name; /* virtio */ } target; ... It is written that virtio must use char *name. But in docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng and others, VirtIO Console use only int port. Thoug I do not understand that which should be used, I attaches the patch for using *name.