qemu: Support chardevs with ARM virt machines

The function to check if -chardev is supported by QEMU was written a long time ago, where adding chardevs did not make sense on the fixed ARM platforms. Since then, we now have a general purpose virt platform, which should support plugging in any device over PCIe which is supported in a similar fashion on x86. Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
open-power-host-os · Jun 25, 2017 · 70c9b44 · 70c9b44
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diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
@@ -5573,6 +5573,11 @@ virQEMUCapsSupportsChardev(const virDomainDef *def,
     if ((def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_ARMV7L) && (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_AARCH64))
         return true;
 
+    /* The virt machine has a PCIe bus and allows plugging in the same type of
+     * devices as x86 systems do on a PCIe bus. */
+    if (qemuDomainIsVirt(def))
+        return true;
+
     /* This may not be true for all ARM machine types, but at least
      * the only supported non-virtio serial devices of vexpress and versatile
      * don't have the -chardev property wired up. */