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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RfC 0/9] chardev hotplug
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Il 20/12/2012 11:56, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:49:29AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> On 19.12.2012 16:58, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>   Hi,
>>>
>>> Chardev hotplug patch series reloaded.  Not finished yet, commit
>>> messages not finalized yet, totally untested other than building on
>>> linux+windows.
>>>
>>> I doubt I manage to finish (and test!) it before xmas.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> Okay, the QMP interface seems sane to me (from libvirt POV). However,
>> what about other chardev types like pipe and vc? And I guess pty can be
>> covered by tty, right?

I think that is the missing part.

Paolo

> No, QEMU's  pty & tty types are different - the latter is about accessing
> host serial devices
> 
> From libvirt's POV, I think the most important chardev types are pty,
> unix and tcp. The other types are pretty rarely used AFAICT.
> 
> 
> Daniel
>