Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RfC 0/9] chardev hotplug

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

>>>> I doubt I manage to finish (and test!) it before xmas.
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>>> Okay, the QMP interface seems sane to me (from libvirt POV). However,
>>> what about other chardev types like pipe and vc? And I guess pty can be
>>> covered by tty, right?
> 
> I think that is the missing part.

Exactly.

/me wades through the socket code (unix+tcp) right now, which needs some
refactoring to make it fly.

>> From libvirt's POV, I think the most important chardev types are pty,
>> unix and tcp. The other types are pretty rarely used AFAICT.

pty looks like another non-trivial challenge.  How does libvirt gather
the pty device today?  IIRC there is some stderr parsing?  Or was it
info chardev?  With QMP we probably want switch to a more sane model
here ...

cheers,
  Gerd