Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 12/24/09 09:26, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> We could declare that -virtioconsole always creates a bus a feature, but
> I can do that in good conscience only if the console created along with
> it always gets attached to it, even when other suitable buses exist.

I'd just discourage mixing -virtioconsole and -device virtio-serial-$bus

The whole point of -virtioconsole is backward compatibility for 
management apps / start scripts and the like and it should create a 
device which can be used by the guest like the qemu 0.11 virtioconsole.

If you are using device virtio-serial-$bus you are obviously not needing 
the backward compatibility stuff ;)

cheers,
  Gerd