On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 07:53:40AM -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > KVM Forum 2011 > - expand the scope? yes, continue up the stack > - how long? 2 days (maybe 2 1/2 - 3 space permitting) > - where? Vancouver with LinuxCon > > Spice guest agent: > - virt agent, matahari, spice agent...what is in spice agent? > - spice char device > - mouse, copy 'n paste, screen resolution change > - could be generic (at least input and copy/paste) > - send protocol details of what is being sent > - need to look at how difficult it is to split it out from spice > (how to split out in qemu vs. libspice) > - goal to converge on common framework > - more discussion on char device vs. protocol > - eg. mouse_set breaks if mouse channel is part pv and part spice specific > - Alon will send link to protocol and try to propose new interfaces
http://spice-space.org/page/Whiteboard/AgentProtocol That's the corrent documentation. Notably the clipboard is a todo there, I'll try to get that filled in. I'll continue this discussion on a separate thread later. Alon > > migration and block devices: > - need to invalidate data after first read on target, > because it can be stale > - close + reopen is what was done for NFS > - iscsi: can issue ioctl(BLKFLSBUF) to flush, but it's CAP_SYS_ADMIN only > - O_DIRECT to avoid cache (concerns that it's not guaranteed) > - agree change the default (cache=none for > > qemu patch queue is long: > - slow to return from break > - patience and more patch review will help make sure things are applied > and don't fall through cracks >
