Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:33:35 -0800 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Roman Bogorodskiy <novel@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bhyve: allow specifiying tty by fd Message-ID: <5318BF7F.4060306@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140305130030.GA40560@dev.san.ru> References: <20140305130030.GA40560@dev.san.ru>
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Hi Roman, > Currently bhyve(8) allows to specify either stdio or device path as a > TTY device. However, it could be useful to specify a TTY device by file > descriptor, e.g. when bhyve is being executed in an automated way by > other application, so a result of openpty(3) could be passed to it. > > Attached a poc patch for that. It allows to specify fd this way: > > bhyve <snip> -s 31,lpc -l com1,fd=19 vm0 Yes, useful idea, and will become more relevant in the capsicum world of passing fd's to a sandboxed bhyve. Thanks: I'll get this submitted. later, Peter.
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