Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-char: inherit ptys and imporve output from -serial pty

[Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Sorry, s/imporve/improve...

On 12/20/2012 10:49 PM, Lei Li wrote:
> When controlling a qemu instance from another program, it's
> hard to know which serial port or monitor device is redirected
> to which pty. With more than one device using "pty" a lot of
> guesswork is involved.
>
> $ ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -serial pty -serial pty -monitor pty
> char device redirected to /dev/pts/5
> char device redirected to /dev/pts/6
> char device redirected to /dev/pts/7
>
> Although we can find out what everything else is connected to
> by the "info chardev" with "-monitor stdio" in the command line,
> It'd be very useful to be able to have qemu inherit pseudo-tty
> file descriptors so they could just be specified on the command
> line like:
>
> $ ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -serial pty -serial pty -monitor pty
> char device compat_monitor0 redirected to /dev/pts/5
> char device serial0 redirected to /dev/pts/6
> char device serial1 redirected to /dev/pts/7
>
> Referred link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/938552
>
> Reported-by: Craig Ringer <ringerc@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lei Li <lilei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   qemu-char.c |    4 +++-
>   1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-char.c b/qemu-char.c
> index 242b799..2b0f5f4 100644
> --- a/qemu-char.c
> +++ b/qemu-char.c
> @@ -981,6 +981,7 @@ static CharDriverState *qemu_chr_open_pty(QemuOpts *opts)
>       CharDriverState *chr;
>       PtyCharDriver *s;
>       struct termios tty;
> +    char *label;
>       int master_fd, slave_fd, len;
>   #if defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__DragonFly__)
>       char pty_name[PATH_MAX];
> @@ -1006,7 +1007,8 @@ static CharDriverState *qemu_chr_open_pty(QemuOpts *opts)
>       chr->filename = g_malloc(len);
>       snprintf(chr->filename, len, "pty:%s", q_ptsname(master_fd));
>       qemu_opt_set(opts, "path", q_ptsname(master_fd));
> -    fprintf(stderr, "char device redirected to %s\n", q_ptsname(master_fd));
> +    label = g_strdup(qemu_opts_id(opts));
> +    fprintf(stderr, "char device %s redirected to %s\n", label, q_ptsname(master_fd));
>
>       s = g_malloc0(sizeof(PtyCharDriver));
>       chr->opaque = s;


-- 
Lei