On Apr 23, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Bryan Venteicher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, John Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bryan (or anyone on the list)- >> >> Can you tell me if virtio-serial is available in a FreeBSD guest? Do you >> know of any plans for it? >> >> I'd like to use it for host<->guest communication a la >> http://log.amitshah.net/2010/09/communication-between-guests-and-hosts/. > > I have a desire to implement it, but not sure when I'll get to it. It is > behind the needs-to-be committed work I have in projects/virtio [1] and > user/bryanv/vtnetmq [2] branches, and supporting MMIO. > > I hadn't looked yet on how easily the VirtIO serial fits it with how FreeBSD > does things. The VirtIO spec is written with mostly Linux in mind and usually > takes varying amounts of extra effort to adapt to FreeBSD. Thanks for the prompt response; I appreciate your efforts. There's an outside chance some developers at $work will be able to contribute, but that wouldn't be immediate. JN _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
