[Qemu-devel] Re: >2 serial ports?

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 03/17/10 09:38, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Since 0.12, it appears that kvm does not allow more than
> 2 serial ports for a guest:
>
> $ kvm \
>   -serial unix:s1,server,nowait \
>   -serial unix:s2,server,nowait \
>   -serial unix:s3,server,nowait
> isa irq 4 already assigned
>
> Is there a work-around for this?

Oh, well, yes, I remember.  qemu is more strict on ISA irq sharing now. 
 A bit too strict.

/me goes dig out a old patch which never made it upstream for some 
reason I forgot.  Attached.

HTH,
  Gerd

0001-isa-refine-irq-reservations.patch
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