Re: qemu guest agent with openbsd

Hello, I have an OpenBSD 7.5 guest running on Debian bookworm with libvirt (9.0) and qemu (7.2). I'd like to use the qemu guest agent in this guest, but I can't seem to figure out how to craft the libvirt xml to expose the serial port in a way that OpenBSD and libvirt can use it together (or if it’s even possible). Per the libvirt docs <https://wiki.libvirt.org/Qemu_guest_agent.html>;, I’m currently using: > <channel type='unix'> > <source mode='bind'/> > <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> > </channel> But OpenBSD doesn’t directly support the virtio console driver. Consistent with this 2020 thread <https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200514073852> from the OpenBSD ports making list, I see the following message in my guest’s dmesg output: > virtio5 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "Qumranet Virtio Console" rev 0x00 > virtio5: no matching child driver; not configured Thanks to this libvir-list thread <https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-October/120250.html> from 2015, I’ve realized that I can manually expose an ISA serial console that will allow me to connect to the guest agent using native qemu tooling; but there doesn’t seem to be a way to create a channel that libvirt can communicate over without virtio console support in the guest. The thread discusses a couple of approaches to resolving this issue with code changes, but it seems like the discussion stalled out before anything happened. Am I missing something or is it still impossible?