Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] Implement "info chardev" command.

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:55:15PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> This patch makes qemu keep track of the character devices in use and
> implements a "info chardev" monitor command to print a list.
> 
> qemu_chr_open() sticks the devices into a linked list now.  It got a new
> argument (label), so there is a name for each device.  It also assigns a
> filename to each character device.  By default it just copyes the
> filename passed in.  Individual drivers can fill in something else
> though.  qemu_chr_open_pty() sets the filename to name of the pseudo tty
> allocated.
> 
> Output looks like this:
> 
>   (qemu) info chardev
>   monitor: filename=unix:/tmp/run.sh-26827/monitor,server,nowait
>   serial0: filename=unix:/tmp/run.sh-26827/console,server
>   serial1: filename=pty:/dev/pts/5
>   parallel0: filename=vc:640x480

Good to have this 'info chardev' support, to avoid need to parse stderr
to try & find PTY device paths :-) 

I don't know if the info is easily available, but for the 'vc' use case,
it might be worth exposing the VC number, so a intelligent client app can
read it, and be able to send 'ctl-alt-NN' in the VNC/SDL console to switch
directly to the char device's VC.


Regards,
Daniel
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