QEMU ppce500 board uses the legacy -serial option.
Other PPC boards don't give any way to explicitly wire in a -chardev
except pseries which uses -device spapr-vty with -chardev.
Signed-off-by: Olivia Yin <Hong-Hua.Yin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
index 03d8842..1b09a17 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
@@ -3467,7 +3467,14 @@ virQEMUCapsSupportsChardev(virDomainDefPtr def,
return false;
if ((def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_ARMV7L) && (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_AARCH64))
- return true;
+ {
+ if ((def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_PPC) && (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_PPC64))
+ return true;
+ else
+ /* only pseries need -device spapr-vty with -chardev */
+ return (chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_SERIAL &&
+ chr->info.type == VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_ADDRESS_TYPE_SPAPRVIO);
+ }
/* This may not be true for all ARM machine types, but at least
* the only supported non-virtio serial devices of vexpress and versatile
--
1.8.5
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