device: 0.896 other: 0.812 mistranslation: 0.611 assembly: 0.575 network: 0.557 semantic: 0.506 graphic: 0.400 boot: 0.340 instruction: 0.332 KVM: 0.225 socket: 0.157 vnc: 0.138 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.