Re: [Qemu-devel] -serial stdio broken

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/07/2010 06:10 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:55:05AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>    
> >    chardev: opening backend "stdio" failed
> >    qemu: could not open serial device 'stdio': Invalid argument
> >      
> Or sometimes:
>
> chardev: opening backend "stdio" failed
> qemu: could not open serial device 'stdio': Success
>
> (!)
>
> So what seems to be happening here is there is an implicit monitor
> being set up which grabs stdio.  Because:
>
>    #define STDIO_MAX_CLIENTS 1
>
> my own -serial stdio option subsequently fails.  This is a regression
> over previous behaviour.  I didn't specify a monitor device, because I
> don't want one, and previous versions of qemu didn't give me one in
> nographic mode.
>    

Your old invocation was technically incorrect but it happened to work.  
It now throws an error.

It's a tough call about whether such things are regressions but in this 
case, I really don't think it is because the old behaviour wasn't 
self-consistent.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori