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Bug 704987

Summary: RFE: Provide chardev_add and chardev_del commands to allow virtio serial channel hotplug
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
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Version: 6.1CC: amit.shah, juzhang, mkenneth, virt-maint
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2011-05-16 09:38:08 UTC
Description of problem:
In order to support hotplug of virtio serial channels, it is neccessary to be able to hotplug/unplug chardevs. This requires two new QMP commands

  chardev_add  CONFIG
  chardev_del  ID

With 'CONFIG' being the same set of args available to the -chardev command line arg.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.161.el6

How reproducible:
N/a

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Comment 2 Amit Shah 2011-05-16 12:22:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 676568 ***