Re: [Qemu-devel] bidirectional data exchange between guest and host without network

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) Jul 07 2009 [15:11:30], Anthony Lannuzel wrote:
> 
> > virtio-serial was designed for exactly this sort of thing.
> > Patches appear on the list from time to time.
> >
> > -- Jamie
> 
> Hi, thanks for replying.
> 
> I have just tried the following:
> 
> On the host I create a fat partition on /dev/sda8. Then I run
> 
> kvm -hda $IMG -drive file=/dev/sda8,if=virtio -cdrom /dev/cdrom -m 192

What Jamie meant is virtio-serial, that's not yet included in qemu. I'm
working on the patches and the last snapshot I sent out is available
from here:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/virtualization/2009-July/013250.html

                Amit