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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:13:20 +0200
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 07/22/09 01:41, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> completely swizzle the char device syntax. Something like:
>
> -char name=foo,type=unix,unix-path=/some/path,mode=server,wait=off
 >
> Then allow a char:<name> url to be used anywhere that takes traditional
> char device urls.
>
> -net user,guestfwd=tcp:10.0.2.4:6666-char:foo

Also: -serial char=foo

Very useful IMHO.

cheers,
   Gerd