On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:33:01AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:10:58AM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:01:05PM +0100, Niccolo Rigacci wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm trying to use libvirt for an armel virtual machine hosted > > > into an x86_64 box. > > > > > > I know the command line to start qemu-system-arm directly, but I > > > cannot figure a proper .xml configuration file to let libvirt do > > > this job. > > > > > > > We're still missing a full support for qemu-system-arm because it has > > different options, works differently and so on. > > > > > The main problem is that I want a serial console attached via > > > telnet, this is the Qemu incantation: > > > > > > -serial telnet::4000,server,nowait,nodelay > > > > > > > this is an old-style for -chardev serial, I believe > > > > > Wahtever I do in libvirt, I get this paramter added: > > > > > > -device isa-serial > > > > > > > and this is new-style for x86 qemu, however, arm-based qemu haven't > > adopted this option yet. > > > > To be a bit more precise, only *some* machine types support this > option, others may have adopted it, but don't use it properly and what > you describe is most probably properly adopted option, but qemu not > adding an ISA controller (apart from non-arm qemu which has it > always). Can you send me the output of 'virsh capabilities' and > 'virsh dumpxml <domain_name>' so I can have a look at what's the > particular type of machine you are using for which we should not use > '-device isa-serial'? > Sorry for spamming so much about this, I should've thought about that more before the first reply. I looked at the code and this should be fixed since commit v1.1.2-9-g3a2beae [1]. Fromt hat I guess you are using version 1.1.2 or older. Please update your libvirt and le us know if that problem persists. Have a nice day, Martin [1] http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a2bea > Thanks, > Martin > > > > which causes Qemu to fail: > > > > > > qemu-system-arm -M versatileab -device isa-serial \ > > > -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-versatile > > > qemu-system-arm: -device isa-serial: No 'ISA' bus found for device 'isa-serial' > > > > > > How can I instead have -device pl011, or just have the default > > > devices provided by qemu-system-arm, i.e. to prevent libvirt from > > > adding the -nodefaults switch? > > > > > > > libvirt adds -nodefault and similar options (and has to add them) > > because otherwise there are devices which libvirt doesn't know of and > > is thus unable to work properly. I found one small thing in the code > > which might help you, I'll cook-up a patch and will put you in Cc > > when sending, can you try compiling it with that patch added (or from > > git when pushed) to see whether that will help you? > > > > Have a nice day, > > Martin > > > > > Thank you! > > > > > > -- > > > Niccolo Rigacci - http://www.rigacci.net/ > > > Campi Bisenzio - Firenze - Italy > > > Tel. Office: +39-055-9331021, Mobile: +39-327-5619352 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > libvirt-users mailing list > > > libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > libvirt-users mailing list > > libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > _______________________________________________ > libvirt-users mailing list > libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
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