Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports forgeneric guest and host communication

[Alan Cox]

> Again, this is paravirtual serial device and I think it's entirely 
> reasonable for people to hook up these ports in the guest directly to 
> physical serial devices in the host.

virtio doesn't support all those features.

> I fail to see how this is at all relevant.  This is a virtual
> machine, we're presenting virtual hardware that behaves like a serial
> device.

The more important question is what you are using it for, and when you
ask that question it looks remarkably unlike a tty or serial port and
rather more like a message and status passing bus ?
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