Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication

[Anthony Liguori]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I don't think that's not too bad, for example, with fast-user-switching
> between multiple X servers and/or text consoles, there's already support
> code that deals with chown'ing things like /dev/snd/* devices to match 
> the active console session. Doing the same with the /dev/vmch3 device so
> that it is only ever accessible to the current logged in user actually
> fits in to that scheme quite well.
>   

Yeah, I'm not sure how something like this would interact with f-u-s.

If copy/paste daemon for user foo opens /dev/vmch3 directly, when you 
switch users, how do you forcefully disconnect user foo from /dev/vmch3 
so that user bad can start using it?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Daniel
>