Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM virtio-serial not showing up (was: Re: ARM virtio-scsi - disks never show up)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 09:49:24AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 September 2013 19:01, Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Have you tried virtio-serial on ARM at all?  The port never shows up.
> 
> I don't think I've tested the serial-device part of it, but I've
> used it to provide virtio console with:
>  -append 'root=/dev/mmcblk0 rw console=hvc0 rootwait' \
>  -device virtio-serial-device \
>  -device virtconsole,chardev=mychardev \
>  -chardev stdio,id=mychardev
> 
> and that definitely worked.

OK thanks.  I'll see if I can debug this further this weekend.

Rich.

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