[PATCH] Fix for parallel port passtrough for QEMU

[<Beat.Joerg@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi

 

As requested by Dave, I send this to the list.

 

I came across a bug that the command line generated for passtrough of the host parallel port /dev/parport0 by libvirt for QEMU is incorrect.

 

It currently produces:

-chardev tty,id=charparallel0,path=/dev/parport0

-device isa-parallel,chardev=charparallel0,id=parallel0

 

The first parameter is "tty". It sould be "parport".

If I launch qemu with –chardev parport,… it works as expected.

I have already filled a bug report ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823879 ), the topic was already on the list some months ago:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2011-September/msg00095.html

Not sure if this is fix is very clean, but for my case it works. 

Perhaps it should also be checked if similar problems / patches are required for other chardev backends.

Kind regards

Beat

diff -Naur libvirt-0.9.4.orig/src/qemu/qemu_command.c libvirt-0.9.4/src/qemu/qemu_command.c

--- libvirt-0.9.4.orig/src/qemu/qemu_command.c       2012-05-22 13:40:16.788633656 +0200

+++ libvirt-0.9.4/src/qemu/qemu_command.c     2012-05-22 13:52:18.453608557 +0200

@@ -2357,8 +2357,14 @@

         break;

     case VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_DEV:

-        virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "tty,id=char%s,path=%s", alias,

-                          dev->data.file.path);

+        if (STRPREFIX(dev->data.file.path, "/dev/parport")) {

+            virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "parport,id=char%s,path=%s", alias,

+                              dev->data.file.path);

+        }

+        else {

+            virBufferAsprintf(&buf, "tty,id=char%s,path=%s", alias,

+                              dev->data.file.path);

+        }

         break;

     case VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_FILE:

 

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