The virtio-console.c file handles both serial consoles
and interactive consoles, since they're backed by the
same device model.
Since serial devices are expected to be reliable and
need to notify the guest when the backend is opened
or closed, the virtio-console.c file wires up support
for chardev events. This affects both serial consoles
and interactive consoles, using a network connection
based chardev backend such as 'socket', but not when
using a PTY based backend or plain 'file' backends.
When the host side is not connected the handle_output()
method in virtio-serial-bus.c will drop any data sent
by the guest, before it even reaches the virtio-console.c
code. This means that if the chardev has a logfile
configured, the data will never get logged.
Consider for example, configuring a x86_64 guest with a
plain UART serial port
-chardev socket,id=charserial1,host=127.0.0.1,port=9001,server,nowait,logfile=console1.log,logappend=on
-device isa-serial,chardev=charserial1,id=serial1
vs a s390 guest which has to use the virtio-console port
-chardev socket,id=charconsole1,host=127.0.0.1,port=9000,server,nowait,logfile=console2.log,logappend=on
-device virtconsole,chardev=charconsole1,id=console1
The isa-serial one gets data written to the log regardless
of whether a client is connected, while the virtioconsole
one only gets data written to the log when a client is
connected.
There is no need for virtio-serial-bus.c to aggressively
drop the data for console devices, as the chardev code is
prefectly capable of discarding the data itself.
So this patch changes virtconsole devices so that they
are always marked as having the host side open. This
ensures that the guest OS will always send any data it
has (Linux virtio-console hvc driver actually ignores
the host open state and sends data regardless, but we
should not rely on that), and also prevents the
virtio-serial-bus code prematurely discarding data.
The behaviour of virtserialport devices is *not* changed,
only virtconsole, because for the former, it is important
that the guest OSknow exactly when the host side is opened
/ closed so it can do any protocol re-negotiation that may
be required.
Fixes bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1599214
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1470241360-3574-2-git-send-email-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Complete details of the process for building and configuring QEMU for
all supported host platforms can be found in the qemu-tech.html file.
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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