(2011/12/12 22:58), Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:18:23AM +0900, MATSUDA, Daiki wrote:
In addition, the QEMU guest agent requires specified socket. Virt IO
Console, too. But unfortunately libvirt does not support to xml tags
to give socket name options to QEMU for the QEMU guest agent and
Virt IO Console.
Err, yes we do.
<channel type='unix'>
<source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/f16x86_64.agent'/>
<target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
</channel>
Yes, I confirmed that it can create the socket for guest agent and
communicate to guest.
Or for the console
<console type='unix'>
<source mode='bind'
path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/f16x86_64.console'/>
<target type='virtio'/>
</channel>
though you really want to use type=pty for consoles, so that
'virsh console'
works correctly.
Daniel
But It is not enough. Because I use the socket for VirtIO console,
i.e. gives the option '-device virtconsole,chardev=...,name=foo' for
qemu.
And I read the source code, but found funny...
In src/conf/domain_conf.h, struct _virDomainChrDef is
struct _virDomainChrDef {
...
union {
int port; /* parallel, serial, console */
virSocketAddrPtr addr; /* guestfwd */
char *name; /* virtio */
} target;
...
It is written that virtio must use char *name.
But in docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng and others, VirtIO Console use
only int port.
Thoug I do not understand that which should be used, I attaches the
patch for using *name.
Neither is really relevant for virtio-console, it just provides one or more
interactive console for admins.
The name is only relevant when coming to create virtio serial channels
for non-interactive use. eg the<channel> elements.
Daniel
My simple requirement is to give qemu the option such as
-device virtio-serial \
-chardev socket,path=/tmp/foo,server,nowait,id=foo \
-device virtconsole,chardev=foo,name=org.fedoraproject.console.foo
(e.g. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial it has a
little mistake not virtioconsole but virtconsole.)
But current libvirt source code does not accept name=... with
virtconsole. Because 'virtconsole' is only added on
qemuBuildVirtioSerialPortDevStr() in src/qemu/qemu_command.c when
dev->deviceType is VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_CONSOLE and 'name=' is
only added on some function when dev->deviceType is
VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_CHANNEL.
Similarly it is impossible to use <channel> instead of <console> for
virtconsole because deviceType is set as VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_CHANNEL.
So, if it is possible to take 2 options port and name for <console>
virtio, could you modify from union to struct on struct _vifDomainChrDef
in src/conf/domain_conf.h ?
MATSUDA Daiki
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