Re: [libvirt-users] Problems with qemu-system-arm and isa-serial

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:33:01AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: >> >>> Wahtever I do in libvirt, I get this paramter added: >>> >>> -device isa-serial >>> >> >> and this is new-style for x86 qemu, however, arm-based qemu haven't >> adopted this option yet. >> > > To be a bit more precise, only *some* machine types support this > option, others may have adopted it, but don't use it properly and what > you describe is most probably properly adopted option, but qemu not > adding an ISA controller (apart from non-arm qemu which has it > always). Can you send me the output of 'virsh capabilities' and > 'virsh dumpxml <domain_name>' so I can have a look at what's the > particular type of machine you are using for which we should not use > '-device isa-serial'? This is the command line I use to start qemu directly: qemu-system-arm -M versatileab -m 256 \ -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-versatile \ -initrd initrd.img-2.6.32-5-versatile \ -hda "debian_squeeze_armel_standard.qcow2" -boot order=c \ -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,ifname=tap72,script=/home/kvm/armel/qemu-ifup \ -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:00:03:72 \ -nographic -serial telnet::4000,server,nowait,nodelay \ -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyAMA0" Adding the -nodefaults I had to use this command line (not exactly equivalent and not perfectly streamlined, but it starts): /usr/bin/qemu-system-arm -M versatileab -m 256 \ -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 \ -name armel -uuid bf9adc6c-f05c-2698-1cf0-278fd86dc19a \ -nographic -no-user-config -nodefaults \ -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown \ -kernel /home/kvm/armel/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-versatile \ -initrd /home/kvm/armel/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-versatile \ -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyAMA0" \ -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci,addr=0x1.0x2 \ -device pl011 \ -drive file=/home/kvm/armel/debian_squeeze_armel_standard.qcow2,if=scsi \ -device lsi \ -boot order=c \ -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,ifname=tap72,script=/home/kvm/armel/qemu-ifup \ -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:00:03:72 \ -serial telnet::4000,server,nowait,nodelay