[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Enable virtio-serial in the daemon

[Matthew Booth]

On 23/08/10 16:09, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:52:05PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
>> Update the daemon to recognise a guestfs_vmchannel argument of the form
>> "virtio-serial:<name>". The daemon will expect a virtio-serial device to be
>> available locally at /dev/virtio-ports/<name>.
>
> What I want to do here is to remove all the other methods and just use
> virtio-serial always.  virtio-serial is now available on all the
> platforms we care about (possibly excluding RHEL 5, where it is being
> added).  As you noted, it is also much faster than the current
> SLIRP-based network.
>
> If virtio-serial is the only supported option, then we can remove the
> guestfs_vmchannel= option entirely (and good riddance).

Works for me.

Matt
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