[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio-console: Have a static instance of virtconsole

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) Sep 08 2009 [09:08:03], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Amit Shah wrote:
>> Currently the VirtIOConsole struct is allocated from the call
>> to virtio_common_init, also doing an UP_CAST implicitly.
>>
>> The new multiport functionality will need a few arrays and
>> it's easier to move to the new VMState infrastructure by
>> keeping it all within one struct.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
>>   
>
> This seems bad.  Even though the device is multiport capable, we should  
> still supporting having multiple devices per guest.

OK; so I'll drop this for now. I'd much rather we get the multiple ports
patch in first and then add support for multiple devices.

                Amit