Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] char: add qemu_chr_be_is_fe_connected

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

  Hi,

> Okay, let's use your example here with a standard UART.  In the
> following sequence, I should receive:
> 
> 1) Starts guest
> 2) When guest initializes the UART, qemu_chr_fe_open()
> 3) Reboot guest
> 4) Receive qemu_chr_fe_close()
> 5) Boot new guest without a UART driver
> 6) Nothing is received

Well, with virtio-serial the logic is slightly different.
qemu_chr_fe_open() is called when a process opens
/dev/virtio-ports/$name, not when the virtio-serial driver loads.

I'm not sure whenever the qemu uart emulation can reliable do the same.
 Guest loading the uart driver can probably detected without too much
trouble.  But detecting a process opening /dev/ttySx might not be
possible.  Depends on the guest driver implementation.  For
virtio-serial it is trivial, there is a control message for that ;)

> And for me, the most logical thing is to call qemu_chr_fe_open() in
> post_load for the device.

Ok, just lets do that then.

cheers,
  Gerd