"info chardev" not showing the real port in use With Qemu 2.1.2 ============== pharidos@uks2:~/work/tplaf/☸ qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /space/pharidos/Disks/Blank_disk.qcow2 -serial telnet::0,server,nowait -nographic QEMU 2.1.2 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) info chardev parallel0: filename=null serial0: filename=telnet:0.0.0.0:44189,server <====<<< serial console is using port 44189 compat_monitor0: filename=stdio (qemu) With Qemu 2.5.0 ============== pharidos@kvm:~/$ qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /space/pharidos/Disks/Blank_disk.qcow2 -serial telnet::0,server,nowait -nographic QEMU 2.5.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) info chardev parallel0: filename=null serial0: filename=disconnected:telnet::0,server <====<<< serial console port not shown compat_monitor0: filename=stdio (qemu) Also on quickly connecting to the ports via the netcat tool (hoping that it would make qemu to change its state from disconnected) I see the following error "Error in getpeername: Transport endpoint is not connected" pharidos@uks2:~/$ qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -hda Sisk.qcow2 -serial telnet::0,server,nowait -serial telnet::0,server,nowait -nographic QEMU 2.5.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) info chardev parallel0: filename=null serial1: filename=disconnected:telnet::0,server serial0: filename=disconnected:telnet::0,server compat_monitor0: filename=stdio (qemu) # COnnect quickly to the serial ports via netcat pharidos@kvm:~/$ netstat -tupan 2>/dev/null | grep "LISTEN.* $(pgrep -f qemu)/qemu" | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1 45814 42522 pharidos@kvm:~/$ ports=$(netstat -tupan 2>/dev/null | grep "LISTEN.* $(pgrep -f qemu)/qemu" | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1) pharidos@kvm:~/$ for p in $ports; do echo | nc -w0 kvm $p >/dev/null; done # Check the port status again. We see the the error "Error in getpeername: Transport endpoint is not connected" (qemu) info chardev parallel0: filename=null serial1: filename=Error in getpeername: Transport endpoint is not connected serial0: filename=Error in getpeername: Transport endpoint is not connected compat_monitor0: filename=stdio (qemu) Seems like this has been fixed in recent versions of QEMU again: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -serial telnet::0,server,nowait -nographic QEMU 3.1.93 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) info chardev parallel0: filename=null serial0: filename=disconnected:telnet:0.0.0.0:41346,server compat_monitor0: filename=stdio Yes. This was fixed some time back and I can confirm it working with qemu 2.8 QEMU 2.8.1 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) info chardev parallel0: filename=vc serial0: filename=telnet:127.0.0.1:35293,server <-> 127.0.0.1:52820 compat_monitor0: filename=stdio