On 11/18/2013 01:03 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hey Fedor > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Fedor Lyakhov <fedor.lyak...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Marc, >> >> What does VMC stand for here? Is it related to my idea of virtual >> media controller, or just a coincidence? > > It's a coincidence ;) Hans should know what it really stands for, it > was introduced with USB redir channel. I think it is meant to be "vm > char" device, because this channel kind can be associated with a qemu > chardev. In practice, it allows a channel to stream arbitrary data, > with spice server handling registration, authentication, migration, > some flow control etc. To me, it's the easiest way to implement a new > channel that reuse an existing protocol over Spice.
I remembered it as "virtual machine channel" but char is more accurate, and I agree with the above explanation (I introduced it originally, I think two years ago?). _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
