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7267c094 08/21/2011 07:01 am Anthony Liguori

Use glib memory allocation and free functions

qemu_malloc/qemu_free no longer exist after this commit.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <>
6e1db57b 07/23/2011 07:18 pm Kevin Wolf

qemu-char: Print strerror message on failure

The only way for chardev drivers to communicate an error was to return a NULL
pointer, which resulted in an error message that said that something went
wrong, but not why.

This patch changes the interface to return 0/-errno and updates...
35106c2d 06/06/2011 10:14 am Hans de Goede

spice-qemu-char: Fix flow control in client -> guest direction

In the old spice-vmc device we used to have:
last_out = virtio_serial_write(&svc->port, p, MIN);
if (last_out > 0)
...

Now in the chardev backend we have:
last_out = MIN;...
cd8f7df2 04/28/2011 08:32 am Hans de Goede

spice-chardev: listen to frontend guest open / close

Note the vmc_register_interface() in spice_chr_write is left in place
in case someone uses spice-chardev with a frontend which does not have
guest open / close notification.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <>...
cbcc6336 01/24/2011 04:41 pm Alon Levy

spice: add chardev (v5)

Adding a chardev backend for spice, where spice determines what
to do with it based on the name attribute given during chardev creation.
For usage by spice vdagent in conjunction with a properly named
virtio-serial device, and future smartcard channel usage....