virtio-serial available?

[John Nielsen]

On Apr 23, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Bryan Venteicher <bryanv at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:45 PM, John Nielsen <lists at jnielsen.net> wrote:
>> Bryan (or anyone on the list)-
>> 
>> Can you tell me if virtio-serial is available in a FreeBSD guest? Do you know of any plans for it?
>> 
>> I'd like to use it for host<->guest communication a la http://log.amitshah.net/2010/09/communication-between-guests-and-hosts/.
> 
> I have a desire to implement it, but not sure when I'll get to it. It is behind the needs-to-be committed work I have in projects/virtio [1] and user/bryanv/vtnetmq [2] branches, and supporting MMIO.
> 
> I hadn't looked yet on how easily the VirtIO serial fits it with how FreeBSD does things. The VirtIO spec is written with mostly Linux in mind and usually takes varying amounts of extra effort to adapt to FreeBSD.

Thanks for the prompt response; I appreciate your efforts. There's an outside chance some developers at $work will be able to contribute, but that wouldn't be immediate.

JN