The function to check if -chardev is supported by QEMU was written a long time ago, where adding chardevs did not make sense on the fixed ARM platforms. Since then, we now have a general purpose virt platform, which should support plugging in any device over PCIe which is supported in a similar fashion on x86. Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c index 7f22492..1348af7 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c @@ -5507,6 +5507,11 @@ virQEMUCapsSupportsChardev(const virDomainDef *def, if ((def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_ARMV7L) && (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_AARCH64)) return true; + /* The virt machine has a PCIe bus and allows plugging in the same type of + * devices as x86 systems do on a PCIe bus. */ + if (qemuDomainIsVirt(def)) + return true; + /* This may not be true for all ARM machine types, but at least * the only supported non-virtio serial devices of vexpress and versatile * don't have the -chardev property wired up. */ -- 2.9.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list