From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Now that we can reliably tell whether a given device already exists, we can allow the user to add console devices on the command line with just '-device xen-console,chardev=foo'. Start at 1, because we can't add the *primary* console; that's special because the toolstack has to set up the guest end of that. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- hw/char/xen_console.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/char/xen_console.c b/hw/char/xen_console.c index 2825b8c511..1a0f5ed3e1 100644 --- a/hw/char/xen_console.c +++ b/hw/char/xen_console.c @@ -333,6 +333,22 @@ static char *xen_console_get_name(XenDevice *xendev, Error **errp) { XenConsole *con = XEN_CONSOLE_DEVICE(xendev); + if (con->dev == -1) { + char name[11]; + int idx = 1; + + /* Theoretically we could go up to INT_MAX here but that's overkill */ + while (idx < 100) { + snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%u", idx); + if (!xen_backend_exists("console", name)) { + con->dev = idx; + return g_strdup(name); + } + idx++; + } + error_setg(errp, "cannot find device index for console device"); + return NULL; + } return g_strdup_printf("%u", con->dev); } -- 2.40.1