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

On Jan 14, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 01:09:07AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: >>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? > >No, these aren't normal devices. This is a magic filesystem >which creates entries on the fly. Thanks for the replies. I'm not necessarily stuck on type='pty'. I just need to be able to pin the device name or a pipe name to something known on the host side. Along those lines, I've tried using type='pipe' like so: <serial type='pipe'> <source path='/tmp/mypipe' /> <target port='1' /> </serial> I've created the /tmp/mypipe.in and /tmp/mypipe.out using mkfifo per the qemu directions. But I'm not sure what this is supposed to look like on the VM-side. I notice that I have a ttyS1 in the VM, which I believe is connected to the pipe on the host side, but do I use this as a serial device or as a named pipe? regards, JP _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users