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

On 14/01/2011, at 9:39 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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. Any idea if it's the kind of thing whose name could be selected or changed using udev rules?