On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:23:17PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The current character device syntax uses either > > -serial tty,path=/dev/ttyS2 > > Or > > -chardev tty,id=serial0,path=/dev/ttyS2 -serial chardev:serial0 > > With the new -device support, we now prefer > > -chardev file,id=serial0,path=/tmp/serial.log -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 > > This patch changes the existing -chardev syntax to use this new > scheme, and fallbacks to the old plain -serial syntax for old > QEMU. > > The monitor device changes to > > -chardev socket,id=monitor,path=/tmp/test-monitor,server,nowait -mon chardev=monitor > > In addition, this patch adds --nodefaults, which kills off the > default serial, parallel, vga and nic devices. THis avoids the > need for us to explicitly turn each off ACK, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list