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@@ -22,6 +22,28 @@ Features: Not handled: multiple displays. + +All vdagent communications on the guest side run over a single pipe which +gets presented to the guest os as a virtio serial port. + +Under windows this virtio serial port has the following name: +\\\\.\\Global\\com.redhat.spice.0 + +Under Linux this virtio serial port has the following name: +/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 + +To enable the virtio serial port you need to pass the following params on +the qemu cmdline: + +For qemu < 0.14.0: +-device spicevmc + +For qemu >= 0.14.0: +-device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \ +-chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \ +-device \ +virtserialport,nr=1,bus=virtio-serial0.0,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 + Enjoy, Gerd & Hans |