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| author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2023-04-13 16:07:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2023-04-20 06:50:11 +0200 |
| commit | 5b18a6bf44b93122ba6638d227153cd146a68973 (patch) | |
| tree | 27b3f75564fcaab8338c00e9d3c6489b7023ee60 /qemu-options.hx | |
| parent | 537a1388e65a784ac21eaf1639222e6332357b2f (diff) | |
chardev: Allow setting file chardev input file on the command line
Our 'file' chardev backend supports both "output from this chardev
is written to a file" and "input from this chardev should be read
from a file" (except on Windows). However, you can only set up
the input file if you're using the QMP interface -- there is no
command line syntax to do it.
Add command line syntax to allow specifying an input file
as well as an output file, using a new 'input-path' suboption.
The specific use case I have is that I'd like to be able to
feed fuzzer reproducer input into qtest without having to use
'-qtest stdio' and put the input onto stdin. Being able to
use a file chardev like this:
-chardev file,id=repro,path=/dev/null,input-path=repro.txt -qtest chardev:repro
means that stdio is free for use by gdb.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230413150724.404304-3-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
[thuth: Replace "input-file=" typo with "input-path="]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-options.hx | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index 59bdf67a2c..04c259157a 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -3360,7 +3360,7 @@ DEF("chardev", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_chardev, "-chardev vc,id=id[[,width=width][,height=height]][[,cols=cols][,rows=rows]]\n" " [,mux=on|off][,logfile=PATH][,logappend=on|off]\n" "-chardev ringbuf,id=id[,size=size][,logfile=PATH][,logappend=on|off]\n" - "-chardev file,id=id,path=path[,mux=on|off][,logfile=PATH][,logappend=on|off]\n" + "-chardev file,id=id,path=path[,input-path=input-file][,mux=on|off][,logfile=PATH][,logappend=on|off]\n" "-chardev pipe,id=id,path=path[,mux=on|off][,logfile=PATH][,logappend=on|off]\n" #ifdef _WIN32 "-chardev console,id=id[,mux=on|off][,logfile=PATH][,logappend=on|off]\n" @@ -3563,13 +3563,19 @@ The available backends are: Create a ring buffer with fixed size ``size``. size must be a power of two and defaults to ``64K``. -``-chardev file,id=id,path=path`` +``-chardev file,id=id,path=path[,input-path=input-path]`` Log all traffic received from the guest to a file. ``path`` specifies the path of the file to be opened. This file will be created if it does not already exist, and overwritten if it does. ``path`` is required. + If ``input-path`` is specified, this is the path of a second file + which will be used for input. If ``input-path`` is not specified, + no input will be available from the chardev. + + Note that ``input-path`` is not supported on Windows hosts. + ``-chardev pipe,id=id,path=path`` Create a two-way connection to the guest. The behaviour differs slightly between Windows hosts and other hosts: |