Commit 03efcb7cfd for qemu.org
commit 03efcb7cfdef40ee3124a80b2609d800ec1df1db
Author: Oleksij Samorukov <samm@net-art.cz>
Date: Sat Oct 17 22:19:05 2026 +0200
qga: set FreeBSD virtio-serial channel to raw mode
On FreeBSD the virtio-console port is a tty, unlike Linux's
/dev/virtio-ports which is a character device. It defaults to canonical
mode with echo and software flow control enabled, so the QGA stream
protocol does not work: the initial guest-sync handshake is held in the
line discipline and the host eventually times out.
The existing FreeBSD-specific code only clears ECHO. Configure the port
the same way as the ISA serial path: disable canonical mode, echo and
software flow control, and set VMIN/VTIME. Use TCSANOW instead of
TCSAFLUSH so a handshake that arrives between open() and tcsetattr() is
not discarded.
Tested on FreeBSD 15.1 aarch64 under UTM/QEMU. Before the change
utmctl ip-address timed out and the guest received zero bytes; after the
change QGA commands and guest-set-time work.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Fixes: c6cd588bb3a29a831c862780631a7d2145ade5de ("qga: Add initial FreeBSD support")
Signed-off-by: Oleksij Samorukov <samm@net-art.cz>
Reviewed-by: Kostiantyn Kostiuk <kkostiuk@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20261017201905.12211-1-samm@net-art.cz
Signed-off-by: Kostiantyn Kostiuk <kkostiuk@redhat.com>
diff --git a/qga/channel-posix.c b/qga/channel-posix.c
index 9ccc8b7bd1..c6dfb2df63 100644
--- a/qga/channel-posix.c
+++ b/qga/channel-posix.c
@@ -156,9 +156,10 @@ static gboolean ga_channel_open(GAChannel *c, const gchar *path,
#endif
#ifdef __FreeBSD__
/*
- * In the default state channel sends echo of every command to a
- * client. The client program doesn't expect this and raises an
- * error. Suppress echo by resetting ECHO terminal flag.
+ * FreeBSD's virtio-console port is a tty (unlike Linux's
+ * /dev/virtio-ports, which is a character device) and defaults to
+ * canonical mode with echo and software flow control enabled.
+ * QGA uses a raw stream protocol, so put the port in raw mode.
*/
struct termios tio;
if (tcgetattr(fd, &tio) < 0) {
@@ -166,8 +167,19 @@ static gboolean ga_channel_open(GAChannel *c, const gchar *path,
close(fd);
return false;
}
- tio.c_lflag &= ~ECHO;
- if (tcsetattr(fd, TCSAFLUSH, &tio) < 0) {
+ tio.c_iflag &= ~(IGNBRK | BRKINT | IGNPAR | PARMRK | INPCK | ISTRIP |
+ INLCR | IGNCR | ICRNL | IXON | IXOFF | IXANY |
+ IMAXBEL);
+ tio.c_oflag = 0;
+ tio.c_lflag = 0;
+ tio.c_cflag |= CLOCAL | CREAD;
+ tio.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;
+ tio.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;
+ /*
+ * Use TCSANOW rather than TCSAFLUSH: the host may already have sent
+ * the initial handshake between open() and tcsetattr().
+ */
+ if (tcsetattr(fd, TCSANOW, &tio) < 0) {
error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "error setting channel termios attrs");
close(fd);
return false;