device: 0.896 mistranslation: 0.611 assembly: 0.575 arm: 0.560 network: 0.557 architecture: 0.508 semantic: 0.506 kernel: 0.504 debug: 0.429 graphic: 0.400 hypervisor: 0.356 peripherals: 0.343 boot: 0.340 ppc: 0.277 i386: 0.235 TCG: 0.232 KVM: 0.225 user-level: 0.213 PID: 0.211 risc-v: 0.210 permissions: 0.205 x86: 0.185 performance: 0.182 VMM: 0.179 socket: 0.157 vnc: 0.138 virtual: 0.122 register: 0.099 files: 0.013 Make -chardev, -serial and others accept stderr like they accept stdio Additional information: It's not clear what should happen when the guest tries to read from (instead of write to) the character device. On the other hand, I don't think the specific behavior matters very much.