From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Duffy Subject: Re: serial/ rs232 and qemu /kvm? Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:37:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <48AB38A6.9010505@tait.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:49169 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750992AbYHSWhu (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:37:50 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KVZpl-0002mM-5e for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:37:49 +0000 Received: from rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com ([71.41.149.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:37:49 +0000 Received: from Charles_Duffy by rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:37:49 +0000 In-Reply-To: <48AB38A6.9010505@tait.co.nz> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Michael Malone wrote: > If you're trying to use virt-manager, then don't. > Virt-manager stops you from having access to a bunch of the underlying > features > of kvm/qemu such as serial ports. I'm told they're working on it, but > it's only useful > for a basic setup at the moment. Serial ports *are* available through libvirt, and have been since late April. Using a recent git build of libvirt, I've yet to find anything I'm interested in but incapable of (except perhaps USB storage hot-unplug, but that's very much just a nice-to-have).