From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:06:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20090921110638.02a2e3e1__6876.97305479578$1253527936$gmane$org@linux.intel.com> References: <1252678386-17404-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <1252678386-17404-2-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <20090911170010.34c80f2d@linux.intel.com> <20090911163806.GB25535@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4AAA8838.1080106@codemonkey.ws> <20090911173307.GB27046@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4AAA8A56.3040707@codemonkey.ws> <20090916112332.6bf981a5@linux.intel.com> <4AB164A0.8000402@codemonkey.ws> <20090918170048.53ba8cf6@linux.intel.com> <4AB3C988.2040303@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4AB3C988.2040303@codemonkey.ws> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Amit Shah , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org > Again, this is paravirtual serial device and I think it's entirely > reasonable for people to hook up these ports in the guest directly to > physical serial devices in the host. virtio doesn't support all those features. > I fail to see how this is at all relevant. This is a virtual > machine, we're presenting virtual hardware that behaves like a serial > device. The more important question is what you are using it for, and when you ask that question it looks remarkably unlike a tty or serial port and rather more like a message and status passing bus ?