semantic: 0.149 device: 0.115 other: 0.102 socket: 0.081 graphic: 0.080 vnc: 0.079 network: 0.070 PID: 0.066 performance: 0.060 permissions: 0.050 files: 0.043 debug: 0.039 boot: 0.034 KVM: 0.033 debug: 0.173 device: 0.136 socket: 0.135 other: 0.108 files: 0.102 PID: 0.082 network: 0.073 boot: 0.041 performance: 0.035 semantic: 0.033 KVM: 0.025 graphic: 0.019 permissions: 0.019 vnc: 0.018 virtio serial doesn't work with virtio nic If virtio NIC is not used virtserialport works and delivers data written to /dev/vport0p1 to localhost:4444: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -kernel mykernel -initrd myramdisk -device virtio-serial -chardev socket,host=localhost,port=4444,id=agent -device virtserialport,chardev=agent,name=hera.agent -net user -net nic If using virtio nic, write to /dev/vport0p1 succeeds, but no data is delivered to localhost:4444: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -kernel mykernel -initrd myramdisk -device virtio-serial -chardev socket,host=localhost,port=4444,id=agent -device virtserialport,chardev=agent,name=hera.agent -net user -net nic,model=virtio This bug exists in 2.0 release, Debian's QEMU 1.7 package and b3706faf from git. Triaging old bug tickets... can you still reproduce this issue with the latest version of QEMU? Or could we close this ticket nowadays? I can't reproduce it now, I don't even remember this issue. Ok, thanks for your answer. Then let's assume that it has been fixed by one of the past releases.