On (Fri) Sep 18 2009 [10:57:59], H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 09/18/2009 10:55 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > > I fail to see how this is at all relevant. This is a virtual machine, > > we're presenting virtual hardware that behaves like a serial device. > > Where web servers fit in is completely beyond me. > > > > s/virtio_console/virtio_serial/ > > There is a fairly noticeable difference between a "console device" and a > "serial device". However, something that can be extended and exported > to a physical serial port is definitely the latter. The patch series did start out as a virtio_serial device. The qemu maintainers had a problem supporting both, the pre-existing virtio_console device and the new virtio_serial device as in essence they're the same thing. So even though this patch adds all the support in the virtio_console driver, it's really a virtio_serial transport with a console supported on one of the ports (or multiple, if needed). To maintain backward compatibility in the current scenario, though, I chose not to rename the virtio_console driver to virtio_serial. Amit -- http://log.amitshah.net/ _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
