On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:06:47 -0600 Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> Izik Eidus wrote: > > I want to add that qemu is not the sole user of spice, Spice will be > > used as a protocol to connect into physical windows/linux > > machines.... > > > > So how can we change the library just for qemu? > > > A library is not necessarily a problem. > > What would be a probably is if the library maintains guest visible > state. There are a lot of advantages to keeping qemu as the sole > maintainer of guest visible state as it simplifies things like live > migration. More importantly, it allows us to do things like Avi's > suggested security sandboxing using seccomp(). For that to work, we > need to make sure that we can isolate any code that interacts > directly with the guest. Spice guest visible state inside qemu is just its PCI QXL device. This part is qemu specificed. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori