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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:09:25 +0200
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Am Dienstag 29 September 2009 11:24:31 schrieb Amit Shah:
> OK; how I solved this is: a new internal message between the guest and
> the host. If a host is a console port, the host has to indicate that by
> passing a message to the guest and the guest then hooks it up with hvc.

I am curious how you going to make this compatible with existing code that 
currently uses virtio console.

Christian