On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> I guess this means I need to get networking running on the guest so >> that it has a port visible to the host on which my server can listen. >> Is there a guide somewhere for doing that? I've not had any success in >> an afternoon of searching and trying. > > Can't say I understand what you're trying to accomplish. If you want > to just pass data between a guest and host w/o networking, > virtio-serial is one way of doing it. If you have networking enabled > and the host and guest can talk to each other, TCP or UDP > communication will work as usual. > > Amit
I have a server which I want to run on the guest, and one or more clients which I want to run on the host. So, I need something I can bind(2) to on the guest side, and something I can connect(2) to on the host side. Is that clearer? Is this possible to do with virtio-serial?