peripherals: 0.783 socket: 0.755 network: 0.710 performance: 0.706 x86: 0.703 device: 0.662 graphic: 0.654 kernel: 0.627 architecture: 0.620 user-level: 0.617 vnc: 0.602 semantic: 0.579 permissions: 0.536 virtual: 0.505 files: 0.492 mistranslation: 0.490 hypervisor: 0.468 PID: 0.466 i386: 0.439 debug: 0.428 register: 0.410 ppc: 0.388 arm: 0.370 risc-v: 0.362 VMM: 0.357 boot: 0.352 TCG: 0.278 assembly: 0.268 KVM: 0.245 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.