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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Character device assignment
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:01:25 +0300
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On 08/16/2012 10:28 PM, siddhesh phadke wrote:
> I want to assign my own character device to guest. I tried going
> through code and found -chardev option.-chardev defines several
> backend options but I could not understand how they interact with
> guest. I also tried to search online but I got information mostly
> regarding pci device assignment. Could anyone please help me with
> this? Is there any documentation regarding character device
> assignment?

There is no such thing as character device assignment, since it doesn't
correspond to a single device bus.  We support assigning usb and pci
devices.

What device are you trying to assign?

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