Re: [Qemu-discuss] Virtioconsole problem

[Dunrong Huang]

Hi,
2012/10/20 Eviatar Khen <address@hidden>:
> Hello all,
> On a linux machine I'm preforming the following command (with a binary
> compiled from latest release):
>
> ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -no-acpi -m 500 fedora17.img -device
> virtio-serial -chardev socket,path=/tmp/foo,server,nowait,id=foo -chardev
> socket,path=/tmp/bar,server,nowait,id=bar -device
> virtioconsole,chardev=foo,name=org.fedoraproject.console.foo -device
> virtioconsole,chardev=bar,name=org.fedoraproject.console.foo
Why did you use same name for different virtconsole name?
>
> And I'm getting the following error:
> qemu-system-x86_64: -device
> virtioconsole,chardev=foo,name=org.fedoraproject.console.foo: Parameter
> 'driver' expects device type
>
virtioconsole has been deprecated, please use -device virtconsole or
-device virtio-serial
instead.
> I'm new to qemu, could someone help me with this.
> What am I doing wrong? What this error means? I took the line from:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial#How_To_Test
>
The wiki is too old, it should be updated based on new QEMU code.
> Thank you and best regards,
>
> Eviatar
>



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Best Regards,

Dunrong Huang