[openstack-dev] [Nova] [Libvirt] Virtio-Serial support for Nova libvirt driver

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Sep 26 08:11:01 UTC 2013


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 03:05:16AM +0000, P Balaji-B37839 wrote:
> Hi Ravi,
> 
> We did this as part of PoC few months back.
> 
> Daniel can give us more comments on this as he is the lead for Libvirt
> support in Nova.

Just adding the ability to expose virtio-serial devices to the guest
doesn't do much. You need to have a credible story for what connects
and deals with the host side of the device in Nova. For the QEMU guest
agent, libvirt will own the host side and use it for various APIs it
supports. For the SPICE agent, QEMU owns the host side and uses it to
support functionality used by the SPICE client.

Regards,
Daniel
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