Re: [libvirt-users] host to VM serial device configuration

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:50:01AM +0800, Osier Yang wrote: > 于 2011年01月12日 23:11, John Paul Walters 写道: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to get a virtual serial device up and running between my host >> and virtual machine with a device name on the host. I'm using libvirt >> 0.8.3 and qemu 0.13.0. The challenge that I'm running into is that I'm >> able to get a serial device, but I cannot fix it to a pre-defined device >> name. For example, I'm using the following in my VM's xml file: >> >> <serial type='pty'> >> <source path='/dev/pts/19' /> >> <target port='0' /> >> </serial> >> >> As I said this works, but it doesn't set the host side to /dev/pts/19. >> Is there any way to do this? > > I could reproduce it, trying to find out why. When using type='type', the source path is an output only attribute. You can't control it yourself, it is autoassigned by the kernel as it sees fit.