Bug 501328

Summary:	RFE: Add support for virtio console in libvirt QEMU driver
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Libvirt Maintainers <libvirt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	ajia, berrange, clalance, crobinso, eblake, itamar, lihuang, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2009-05-18 15:30:15 UTC

Description of problem:
Upstream QEMU recently gained support for a VirtIO text console, which can be enabled by setting -virtioconsole CHAR-DEV-OPTIONS.

Currently we treat the first <serial> device as console in QEMU driver. With this new functionality, we can finally provide a proper paravirt console implementation.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.6.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot a guest with a <console> tag 
2. Run 'lspci' inside the guest
3.
  
Actual results:
No virtio console present

Expected results:
VirtIO console device present, module loaded, device visible as /dev/hvc0, and a gettty process running

Additional info:
NB, we may find we need to open further bugs to get the console configure in F12 guests. TBD once libvirt support is present.

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-05-25 14:11:56 UTC

bug #501720 covers getting a gettty launched

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2009-09-15 10:58:47 UTC

I don't see my getting this done for F12, so moving to F13

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2010-03-16 14:53:15 UTC

This should be in rawhide with the latest libvirt release. Closing.

Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2010-03-16 15:01:58 UTC

Actually its not fully implemented. We only enable virtio console as as side-effect of virtio-serial. We still need to allow for a <console> element to setup a real virtio console for interactive use.

Comment 5 Daniel Berrangé 2010-08-23 16:50:11 UTC

This is available upstream now as of:

commit 82b6d7600e2c1ea23a18b23984d7d8d47961cfc9
Author: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Date:   Wed Jul 14 13:02:04 2010 -0400

    qemu: virtio console support
    
    Enable specifying a virtio console device with:
    
    <console type='pty'>
      <target type='virtio'/>
    </console>

This is in the 0.8.3 release.

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Comment 13 Eric Blake 2011-12-02 15:03:12 UTC

Closing per comment 5.