On 22.07.2013, at 20:26, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 22 July 2013 18:50, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: >> We want to be able to spawn a serial console on the platform bus. Create >> a small platbus wrapper device very similar to the ISA one. > > Why not use virtio-console?
Because eventually we want -nodefaults not generate any UARTs and only create them through -device. Guests expect /dev/ttySx device nodes for their serial ports. Alex