[libvirt-users] host to VM serial device configuration

[Justin Clift]

On 14/01/2011, at 9:39 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:50:01AM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
>> 于 2011年01月12日 23:11, John Paul Walters 写道:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to get a virtual serial device up and running between my host
>>> and virtual machine with a device name on the host. I'm using libvirt
>>> 0.8.3 and qemu 0.13.0. The challenge that I'm running into is that I'm
>>> able to get a serial device, but I cannot fix it to a pre-defined device
>>> name. For example, I'm using the following in my VM's xml file:
>>> 
>>> <serial type='pty'>
>>> <source path='/dev/pts/19' />
>>> <target port='0' />
>>> </serial>
>>> 
>>> As I said this works, but it doesn't set the host side to /dev/pts/19.
>>> Is there any way to do this?
>> 
>> I could reproduce it, trying to find out why.
> 
> When using type='type', the source path is an output only
> attribute. You can't control it yourself, it is autoassigned
> by the kernel as it sees fit.

Any idea if it's the kind of thing whose name could be selected or changed
using udev rules?