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@@ -22,6 +22,23 @@ 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
+
+Qemu will enable the virtio serial port when using the following params:
+
+-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