Why is virtio_console not a tty?

H. Peter Anvin
Thu, 12 Jun 2014 19:32:31 -0000

I have gotten scattered reports of strange problems caused by the fact
that virtio_console doesn't behave like a normal tty (support termios
and so on.)  This seems to be an odd restriction -- is there any
fundamental reason for this design choice?

	-hpa