QEMU ppce500 board uses the old style -serial options.
Other PPC boards don't give any way to explicitly wire in a -chardev
except pseries which uses -device spapr-vty with -chardev.
---
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
index 03d8842..1cc37ad 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
@@ -3466,13 +3466,17 @@ virQEMUCapsSupportsChardev(virDomainDefPtr def,
!virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE))
return false;
- if ((def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_ARMV7L) && (def->os.arch !=
VIR_ARCH_AARCH64))
+ if ((def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_ARMV7L) && (def->os.arch !=
VIR_ARCH_AARCH64)
+ && (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_PPC) && (def->os.arch !=
VIR_ARCH_PPC64))
return true;
/* This may not be true for all ARM machine types, but at least
* the only supported non-virtio serial devices of vexpress and versatile
- * don't have the -chardev property wired up. */
+ * don't have the -chardev property wired up.
+ * For PPC machines, only pseries need -device spapr-vty with -chardev */
return (chr->info.type == VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_ADDRESS_TYPE_VIRTIO_MMIO ||
(chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_CONSOLE &&
- chr->targetType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_CONSOLE_TARGET_TYPE_VIRTIO));
+ chr->targetType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_CONSOLE_TARGET_TYPE_VIRTIO) ||
+ (chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_SERIAL &&
+ chr->info.type == VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_ADDRESS_TYPE_SPAPRVIO));
}
--
1.8.5