Amit Shah wrote: > Hey Greg, > > Can you tell me how this could work out -- each console port could have > a "role" string associated with it (obtainable from the invoking qemu > process in case of qemu/kvm). Something that I have in mind currently > is: > > $ qemu-kvm ... -virtioconsole role=org/qemu/clipboard > > and then the guest kernel sees the string, and puts the > "org/qemu/clipboard" in some file in sysfs. Guest userspace should then > be able to open and read/write to > > /dev/virtio_console/org/qemu/clipboard > That's probably not what we want. I imagine what we want is: /dev/ttyV0 /dev/ttyV1 /dev/ttyVN And then we want: /sys/class/virtio-console/ttyV0/name -> "org.qemu.clipboard" Userspace can detect when new virtio-consoles appear via udev events. When it sees a new ttyVN, it can then look in sysfs to discover it's name. Regards, Anthony Liguori _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization