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From QEMU's point of view it's the CharFrontend (which consists of a Chardev*, i.e. the backend, and some data identifying a specific frontend), from the user it could be /dev/hvc0 or whatever. > Sort of, but I think it's too restrictive to name them after "host" > and "guest", as they also have different purposes than strictly VM > components/side usage. > > I believe talking about backend and frontend is usually the preferred > convention. Yes, I agree. Paolo