From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 24 00:53:59 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABDD7FE7; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:53:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (secure.freebsdsolutions.net [69.55.234.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941701761; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.80] (c-67-182-217-170.hsd1.ut.comcast.net [67.182.217.170]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r3O0rhBA038215 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:53:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) References: <1FC1298D-0077-4449-B948-6533812A18AD@jnielsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <7AFC78E9-CE9F-4173-95CF-68CEFE458AD3@jnielsen.net> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10B146) From: John Nielsen Subject: Re: virtio-serial available? Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:53:46 -0600 To: Bryan Venteicher X-DCC-sonic.net-Metrics: ns1.jnielsen.net 1117; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.5 at ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:53:59 -0000 On Apr 23, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Bryan Venteicher wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, John Nielsen wrote: >> Bryan (or anyone on the list)- >>=20 >> Can you tell me if virtio-serial is available in a FreeBSD guest? Do you k= now of any plans for it? >>=20 >> I'd like to use it for host<->guest communication a la http://log.amitsha= h.net/2010/09/communication-between-guests-and-hosts/. >=20 > I have a desire to implement it, but not sure when I'll get to it. It is b= ehind the needs-to-be committed work I have in projects/virtio [1] and user/= bryanv/vtnetmq [2] branches, and supporting MMIO. >=20 > I hadn't looked yet on how easily the VirtIO serial fits it with how FreeB= SD does things. The VirtIO spec is written with mostly Linux in mind and usu= ally takes varying amounts of extra effort to adapt to FreeBSD. Thanks for the prompt response; I appreciate your efforts. There's an outsid= e chance some developers at $work will be able to contribute, but that would= n't be immediate. JN=