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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communic
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Richard W.M. Jones |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication |
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Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:55:57 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:48:00AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:44:28PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>> It really suggests that you need _one_ vmchannel that's exposed to
>>> userspace with a single userspace daemon that consumes it.
>>>
>>
>> ... or a more flexible API. I don't like having fixed /dev/vmch*
>> devices either.
>>
>
> Indeed.
>
>> A long time ago (on a mailing list not so far away) there was a much
>> better userspace API proposed, which had a separate AF_VMCHANNEL
>> address family.
>>
>> That API works much more like TCP sockets, except without requiring
>> network devices:
>>
>
> Dave Miller nacked that approach with a sledgehammer instead preferring
> that we just use standard TCP/IP which is what led to the current
> implementation using slirp.
I'm aware of that - I just don't think it was a good choice.
[BTW the qemu-devel mailing list seems to be bouncing messages]
Rich.
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- [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Daniel P. Berrange, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Jamie Lokier, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Amit Shah, 2009/07/28
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Amit Shah, 2009/07/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Gleb Natapov, 2009/07/29
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication,
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/28