Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

[Paul Brook]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Tue) Jun 23 2009 [13:55:52], Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu
> > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel.
> >
> > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console?
>
> I'm basically writing a vmchannel and found out that a lot can be shared
> between some virtio devices. So I'm just trying to abstract out those
> things in virtio-serial. Once we're sure virtio-serial is good and ready
> to be merged, I will look at converting over virtio-console to the
> virtio-serial interface.

That doesn't really answer my question. We already have a virtual serial 
device (called virtio-console). Why are you inventing another one?

Paul