Re: [libvirt-users] adding devices and chardev in .xml configuration file ...

Thursday, 9 July 2015

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 12:27:20PM +0000, Jean-Pierre Ribeauville wrote:
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Hi,

As I want to start qemu by adding following parameters :

-device virtio-serial
-chardev socket,path=/tmp/foo,server,nowait,id=test
-device virtserialport,chardev=test,name=port.0

Is it possible to add them in the .xml configuration file of the guest , so they will be
automatically added when the guest is started ?

If you don't actually care that much about the id and name, then yes:

  <channel type='unix'>
    <source type='bind' path='/tmp/foo'/>
    <target type='virtio' port='0'/>
  </channel>

If you do, then it's possible too, but unsupported.

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If yes , any doc describing the syntax ?

https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole

Martin