Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Brook
> Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel. So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console? Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.ke

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-23 Thread Amit Shah
On (Tue) Jun 23 2009 [13:55:52], Paul Brook wrote: > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel. > > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console? I'm basically writing a vmchannel and found out that a lo

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Brook
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Amit Shah wrote: > On (Tue) Jun 23 2009 [13:55:52], Paul Brook wrote: > > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu > > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel. > > > > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console? > > I'm

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-23 Thread Christian Bornträger
Am Dienstag 23 Juni 2009 14:55:52 schrieb Paul Brook: > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel. > > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console? I did some work on virtio-console, since kvm on s390 do

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Brook
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Christian Bornträger wrote: > Am Dienstag 23 Juni 2009 14:55:52 schrieb Paul Brook: > > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu > > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel. > > > > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-co

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-23 Thread Christian Bornträger
Am Dienstag 23 Juni 2009 16:16:13 schrieb Paul Brook: > > I did some work on virtio-console, since kvm on s390 does not provide any > > other. I dont think we should mix two different types of devices into one > > driver. The only thing that these drivers have in common, is the fact > > that there

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:55:52PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel. > > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console? In the guest I wouldn't want virtio-serial devic

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-24 Thread Jamie Lokier
Amit Shah wrote: > A few sample uses for a vmchannel are to share the host and guest > clipboards (to allow copy/paste between a host and a guest), to > lock the screen of the guest session when the vnc viewer is closed, > to find out which applications are installed on a guest OS even when > the g

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-24 Thread Amit Shah
On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [17:40:49], Jamie Lokier wrote: > Amit Shah wrote: > > A few sample uses for a vmchannel are to share the host and guest > > clipboards (to allow copy/paste between a host and a guest), to > > lock the screen of the guest session when the vnc viewer is closed, > > to find out w

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-24 Thread Jamie Lokier
Amit Shah wrote: > On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [17:40:49], Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Amit Shah wrote: > > > A few sample uses for a vmchannel are to share the host and guest > > > clipboards (to allow copy/paste between a host and a guest), to > > > lock the screen of the guest session when the vnc viewer i

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-24 Thread Amit Shah
On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [18:50:02], Jamie Lokier wrote: > Amit Shah wrote: > > On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [17:40:49], Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > Amit Shah wrote: > > > > A few sample uses for a vmchannel are to share the host and guest > > > > clipboards (to allow copy/paste between a host and a guest), to >

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-24 Thread Jamie Lokier
Amit Shah wrote: > On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [18:50:02], Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Amit Shah wrote: > > > On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [17:40:49], Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > Amit Shah wrote: > > > > > A few sample uses for a vmchannel are to share the host and guest > > > > > clipboards (to allow copy/paste betw

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-24 Thread Amit Shah
On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [20:20:27], Jamie Lokier wrote: > Amit Shah wrote: > > > > I think the interface from the guest POV stays the same: reads / writes > > to char devices. With virtio-serial, though, we can add a few other > > interesting things like names to ports, ability to hot-add ports on >