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| author | Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com> | 2011-04-01 12:04:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com> | 2011-04-01 12:36:48 +0200 |
| commit | 0e3249ec76a07706559f8b04c9ccf88d50b0a6d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 09bf9913c624bd1b443ae9f7d629340df27c393b | |
| parent | ccf2c69f07ecb03b4f04ea06fe713e699ec8ff3a (diff) | |
It's not obvious how qemu should be started so that vdagentd can
find its com.redhat.spice.0 virtio device. It's explained at
http://spice-space.org/page/Whiteboard/AgentProtocol but is easier
to find if it's explained in README too.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -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 |