On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:44:17PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:34:13AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > On 01/07/2010 05:55 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > >On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 08:24:54AM +0000, Blue Swirl wrote: > > > > > >>I guess e1c09175bc00dd8dfb2ad1b26e1858dcdc109b59 or > > >>998bbd74b9d813b14a3a3b5009a5d5a48c7dce51 broke -serial stdio for all > > >>targets: > > >>qemu -serial stdio -monitor stdio > > >>chardev: opening backend "stdio" failed > > >>qemu: could not open serial device 'stdio': No such file or directory > > >> > > >-serial stdio on its own is broken for me (qemu from git). The error > > >is a little bit different, so I don't think this is the same bug: > > > > > > chardev: opening backend "stdio" failed > > > qemu: could not open serial device 'stdio': Invalid argument > > > > > >The full command line is: > > > > > >$qemudir/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \ > > > -L $qemudir/pc-bios \ > > > -drive file=/tmp/test.img,cache=off,if=ide \ > > > -m 500 \ > > > -no-reboot \ > > > -nographic \ > > > -serial stdio \ > > > > > > > This is redundant. -nographic implies -serial stdio. > > NB, QEMU 0.12 introduces a new flag '-nodefaults' that can be used to > get rid of this imlied 'serial stdio', and all other implied devices. > It is well worth using this new -nodefaults flag if you're managing > qemu from an app to avoid these surprises > > eg this should work as you'd expect it > > qemu -nodefaults -nographic -serial stdio
I think this is probably the way to go then. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora
