Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/18] scripts/qemu.py: support adding a console with the default serial device

[Caio Carrara]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 01:56:21PM -0500, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> The set_console() utility function traditionally adds a device either
> based on the explicitly given device type, or based on the machine type,
> a known good type of device.
> 
> But, for a number of machine types, it may be impossible or
> inconvenient to add the devices my means of "-device" command line
> options, and then it may better to just use the "-serial" option and
> let QEMU itself, based on the machine type, set the device
> accordingly.
> 
> To achieve that, the behavior of set_console() now flags the intention
> to add a console device on launch(), and if no explicit device type is
> given, and there's no definition on CONSOLE_DEV_TYPES, the "-serial"
> is going to be added to the QEMU command line, instead of raising
> exceptions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Caio Carrara <address@hidden>

> ---
>  scripts/qemu.py | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
{...}
> 

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Caio Carrara
Software Engineer, Virt Team - Red Hat
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