On (Fri) 24 Jun 2011 [12:54:07], Joel Uckelman wrote: > 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?
No, not possible. You could explore using virtio-9pfs with slightly different semantics. Amit