[Spice-devel] [PATCH] README: Add qemu commandline options for vdagent

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

Thanks I've applied this to my vdagent git tree (and will push it
to the official tree together with some other stuff soon). I did
make a small change, since the cmdline syntax was different for
older qemu versions. So I've added the old syntax too, with a bit
of text which to use when.

Regards,

Hans


On 04/01/2011 12:40 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> It's not obvious how qemu should be started so that vdagentd can
> find its com.redhat.spice.0 virtio device. It's explained at
> http://spice-space.org/page/Whiteboard/AgentProtocol but is easier
> to find if it's explained in README too.
> ---
>   README |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>   1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index ad40b3a..3f58ebe 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -22,6 +22,23 @@ Features:
>
>   Not handled: multiple displays.
>
> +
> +All vdagent communications on the guest side run over a single pipe which
> +gets presented to the guest os as a virtio serial port.
> +
> +Under windows this virtio serial port has the following name:
> +\\\\.\\Global\\com.redhat.spice.0
> +
> +Under Linux this virtio serial port has the following name:
> +/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0
> +
> +Qemu will enable the virtio serial port when using the following params:
> +
> +-device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \
> +-chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \
> +-device \
> +virtserialport,nr=1,bus=virtio-serial0.0,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0
> +
>   Enjoy,
>     Gerd&  Hans
>