On 03/08/2011 08:17 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
No, I'm in the process of writing up my latest proposal.
The idea is pretty simple. QAPI generates code for libqmp that takes
native arguments for a command and generates a QObject. It also
generates code for QEMU that takes a QObject and generates native
arguments to pass to a function.
For guest commands, we combine the two such that we unmarshal the
incoming QObject to native arguments, then pass it to another
function that marshals the arguments to a QObject. The QObject is
then passed to the guest-agent which uses the same generated code as
QEMU to unmarshal the qobject to native arguments and dispatch to a
function.
That means the only new code we need for the guest agent is the
JSON-over-virtio-serial transport. To implement guest commands, we
just add the command to the schema, implement the native arguments
version in guest-agent, and that's it.
QEMU will buffer all input and output to the guest acting as a first
line of defence from a security PoV. That means that the guest
doesn't get to talk directly to the management tools which removes
that as a direct attack surface.
The nature of QEMU is such that if we do tagging correctly, we can
also support live migration transparently to the guest too.
http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
