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diff --git a/qemu-storage-daemon.c b/qemu-storage-daemon.c
index 14093ac3a0..82fe6cd5f2 100644
--- a/qemu-storage-daemon.c
+++ b/qemu-storage-daemon.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#include "block/block.h"
#include "block/nbd.h"
+#include "chardev/char.h"
#include "crypto/init.h"
#include "qapi/error.h"
@@ -78,6 +79,9 @@ static void help(void)
" [,driver specific parameters...]\n"
" configure a block backend\n"
"\n"
+" --chardev <options> configure a character device backend\n"
+" (see the qemu(1) man page for possible options)\n"
+"\n"
" --export [type=]nbd,device=<node-name>[,name=<export-name>]\n"
" [,writable=on|off][,bitmap=<name>]\n"
" export the specified block node over NBD\n"
@@ -104,11 +108,14 @@ QEMU_HELP_BOTTOM "\n",
enum {
OPTION_BLOCKDEV = 256,
+ OPTION_CHARDEV,
OPTION_EXPORT,
OPTION_NBD_SERVER,
OPTION_OBJECT,
};
+extern QemuOptsList qemu_chardev_opts;
+
static QemuOptsList qemu_object_opts = {
.name = "object",
.implied_opt_name = "qom-type",
@@ -135,6 +142,7 @@ static void process_options(int argc, char *argv[])
static const struct option long_options[] = {
{"blockdev", required_argument, NULL, OPTION_BLOCKDEV},
+ {"chardev", required_argument, NULL, OPTION_CHARDEV},
{"export", required_argument, NULL, OPTION_EXPORT},
{"help", no_argument, NULL, 'h'},
{"nbd-server", required_argument, NULL, OPTION_NBD_SERVER},
@@ -182,6 +190,22 @@ static void process_options(int argc, char *argv[])
qapi_free_BlockdevOptions(options);
break;
}
+ case OPTION_CHARDEV:
+ {
+ /* TODO This interface is not stable until we QAPIfy it */
+ QemuOpts *opts = qemu_opts_parse_noisily(&qemu_chardev_opts,
+ optarg, true);
+ if (opts == NULL) {
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ if (!qemu_chr_new_from_opts(opts, NULL, &error_fatal)) {
+ /* No error, but NULL returned means help was printed */
+ exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
+ }
+ qemu_opts_del(opts);
+ break;
+ }
case OPTION_EXPORT:
{
Visitor *v;