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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:16:01 +0530
From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] bidirectional data exchange between guest and
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To: Anthony Lannuzel <anthony.lannuzel@hynesim.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On (Tue) Jul 07 2009 [15:11:30], Anthony Lannuzel wrote:
> 
> > virtio-serial was designed for exactly this sort of thing.
> > Patches appear on the list from time to time.
> >
> > -- Jamie
> 
> Hi, thanks for replying.
> 
> I have just tried the following:
> 
> On the host I create a fat partition on /dev/sda8. Then I run
> 
> kvm -hda $IMG -drive file=/dev/sda8,if=virtio -cdrom /dev/cdrom -m 192

What Jamie meant is virtio-serial, that's not yet included in qemu. I'm
working on the patches and the last snapshot I sent out is available
from here:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2009-July/013250.html

		Amit