[libvirt-users] from command line to xml file

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 01:20:41PM +0000, Jean-Pierre Ribeauville wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In order to use a virtio-serial to exchange data between host and its guests, I'd like to modify  the .xml Guest conf file by adding  these parameters ( as found in the command line) :
> 
> -device virtio-serial \
> -chardev socket,path=/tmp/foo,server,nowait,id=foo \
> -device virtserialport,chardev=foo,name=org.fedoraproject.port.0
> 
> How should I  build the XML tags ?

Take a read of this:

  http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsConsole

It should be approx

  <channel type="unix">
    <source mode='bind' path='/tmp/foo'/>
    <target type='virtio' name='com.fedoraproject.port.0'/>
  </channel>


Regards,
Daniel
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