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 >

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 [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 [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 [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: > 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: virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

2009-06-24 Thread Amit Shah
On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [13:45:01], Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:12:31 pm Amit Shah wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel. > > > > While working on a vmchannel interface that is

Re: [PATCH/RFC] virtio_test: A module for testing virtio via userspace

2009-06-24 Thread Christian Bornträger
Am Mittwoch 24 Juni 2009 05:40:34 schrieb Rusty Russell: > > o the general idea of a virtio_test module > > o the user interface ioctls > > o further ideas and comments > > Not mugging real drivers would be a requirement, I think. Ok, I try to find a proper way to avoid that virtio_test binds t