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On 02/16/16 18:02, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16/02/2016 17:32, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> I'm a big fan of muxing the stdio backend between the (human) monitor
>> and the guest's serial console:
>>
>>   -chardev stdio,signal=off,mux=on,id=char0 \
>>   -mon chardev=char0,mode=readline,default \
>>   -serial chardev:char0 \
> 
> Or just "-serial mon:stdio". :)

For what reason on earth are these three *possible* at all to tie up
into a single command line option?

... I appreciate your teaching me ancient lores, but I think I just died
a little inside.

Laszlo