I have found this 3 year old patch adding virtio console resize
support, which seems to have been forgotten at that time. I would like
to see this feature merged.
Szymon, you have originally submitted this patch, would you be willing
to update it for the latest development tree and resubmit it?
If it turns out that Szymon doesn't want to work on this anymore for
any reason (or doesn't respond), could I resubmit the patch myself?
The contributing guidelines don't say anything about this. I'm
especially unsure how to deal with Signed-off-by, as in such case I
would be (re)submitting sombody else's work, but potentially with my
modifications. I'm willing to update and test the patch, and if
necessary, address any review feedback.
- Filip Hejsek
> The goal of this series is to have a resizable terminal into a guest
> without having to set up networking and using, e.g. ssh.
>
> The virtio spec allows a virtio-console device to notify the guest
> about
> terminal resizes in the host. Linux Kernel implements the driver part
> of
> the spec. This series implement the device part in QEMU.
>
> This series adds support for a resizable terminal if a virtio console
> device is connected to the stdio backend.
>
> This series also introduces resize messages that can be sent over QMP
> to
> notify QEMU about the size of the terminal connented to some chardev.
> In the libvirt setting, it will allow to implement a resizable
> terminal
> for virsh console and other libvirt clients.
>
>
> v3:
> add resize messages over QMP, as suggested by Daniel
>
> v2:
> fix adding a new virtio feature bit to the virtio console device
>
> Szymon Lukasz (9):
> chardev: add cols, rows fields
> chardev: add CHR_EVENT_RESIZE
> chardev: add qemu_chr_resize()
> char-mux: add support for the terminal size
> main-loop: change the handling of SIGWINCH
> char-stdio: add support for the terminal size
> qmp: add chardev-resize command
> virtio-serial-bus: add terminal resize messages
> virtio-console: notify the guest about terminal resizes
>
> backends/cryptodev-vhost-user.c | 1 +
> chardev/char-fe.c | 13 +++++++
> chardev/char-mux.c | 18 ++++++++-
> chardev/char-stdio.c | 29 ++++++++++++++
> chardev/char.c | 26 +++++++++++++
> hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c | 1 +
> hw/char/terminal3270.c | 1 +
> hw/char/trace-events | 1 +
> hw/char/virtio-console.c | 63
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> hw/core/machine.c | 1 +
> hw/ipmi/ipmi_bmc_extern.c | 1 +
> hw/usb/ccid-card-passthru.c | 1 +
> hw/usb/dev-serial.c | 1 +
> hw/usb/redirect.c | 1 +
> include/chardev/char-fe.h | 10 +++++
> include/chardev/char.h | 7 ++++
> include/hw/virtio/virtio-serial.h | 5 +++
> include/qemu/main-loop.h | 4 ++
> monitor/hmp.c | 1 +
> monitor/qmp.c | 1 +
> net/vhost-user.c | 1 +
> qapi/char.json | 25 ++++++++++++
> ui/curses.c | 11 +++---
> util/main-loop.c | 21 +++++++++++
> 25 files changed, 274 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>