In additional to the description in the patch, see following email for uses: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-01/msg01208.html
In particular it would/could be used for: current vdagent of spice uses this for mouse, copy paste proposed smartcard device for qemu uses this with spice usb forwarding terminal forwarding qemu monitor forwarding Alon Levy (1): spice: add chardev (v5) Makefile.objs | 2 +- qemu-char.c | 4 + qemu-config.c | 6 ++ qemu-options.hx | 16 ++++- spice-qemu-char.c | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ trace-events | 6 ++ ui/qemu-spice.h | 3 + 7 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 spice-qemu-char.c -- 1.7.3.4
