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On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:17:14PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Can it be made to look like a real serial port, ie.
> '-serial dev,model=virtio' ?

A rather pedantic point, perhaps, but this doesn't really look like a
serial device to me (in the same way that it doesn't look like a
parallel device, either).

But then I might as well argue that flash-based storage devices aren't 
"disks", etc., etc... :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Stuart Brady