Bug 704987 - RFE: Provide chardev_add and chardev_del commands to allow virtio serial channel hotplug
Summary: RFE: Provide chardev_add and chardev_del commands to allow virtio serial chan...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 676568
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Virtualization Maintenance
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
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Blocks: 704955
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Reported: 2011-05-16 09:38 UTC by Daniel Berrangé
Modified: 2012-02-06 21:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-05-16 12:22:39 UTC
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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

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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 ***
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