Public bug reported: If virtio NIC is not used virtserialport works and delivers data written to /dev/vport0p1 to localhost:4444:
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -kernel mykernel -initrd myramdisk -device virtio-serial -chardev socket,host=localhost,port=4444,id=agent -device virtserialport,chardev=agent,name=hera.agent -net user -net nic If using virtio nic, write to /dev/vport0p1 succeeds, but no data is delivered to localhost:4444: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -kernel mykernel -initrd myramdisk -device virtio-serial -chardev socket,host=localhost,port=4444,id=agent -device virtserialport,chardev=agent,name=hera.agent -net user -net nic,model=virtio This bug exists in 2.0 release, Debian's QEMU 1.7 package and b3706faf from git. ** Affects: qemu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299566 Title: virtio serial doesn't work with virtio nic Status in QEMU: New Bug description: If virtio NIC is not used virtserialport works and delivers data written to /dev/vport0p1 to localhost:4444: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -kernel mykernel -initrd myramdisk -device virtio-serial -chardev socket,host=localhost,port=4444,id=agent -device virtserialport,chardev=agent,name=hera.agent -net user -net nic If using virtio nic, write to /dev/vport0p1 succeeds, but no data is delivered to localhost:4444: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -kernel mykernel -initrd myramdisk -device virtio-serial -chardev socket,host=localhost,port=4444,id=agent -device virtserialport,chardev=agent,name=hera.agent -net user -net nic,model=virtio This bug exists in 2.0 release, Debian's QEMU 1.7 package and b3706faf from git. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1299566/+subscriptions