Re: [Qemu-devel] -serial stdio broken

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/07/2010 05:55 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 08:24:54AM +0000, Blue Swirl wrote:
>    
> > I guess e1c09175bc00dd8dfb2ad1b26e1858dcdc109b59 or
> > 998bbd74b9d813b14a3a3b5009a5d5a48c7dce51 broke -serial stdio for all
> > targets:
> > qemu -serial stdio -monitor stdio
> > chardev: opening backend "stdio" failed
> > qemu: could not open serial device 'stdio': No such file or directory
> >      
> -serial stdio on its own is broken for me (qemu from git).  The error
> is a little bit different, so I don't think this is the same bug:
>
>    chardev: opening backend "stdio" failed
>    qemu: could not open serial device 'stdio': Invalid argument
>
> The full command line is:
>
> $qemudir/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \
>      -L $qemudir/pc-bios \
>      -drive file=/tmp/test.img,cache=off,if=ide \
>      -m 500 \
>      -no-reboot \
>      -nographic \
>      -serial stdio \
>    

This is redundant.  -nographic implies -serial stdio.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori