[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Split machine creation from the main loop

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/28/2011 03:13 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 10:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 02/28/2011 09:20 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > > We should have another abstraction for connection based backend.  I'll
> > > > take a go at this when I'm ready to try to get those patches in.
> > >
> > > Shouldn't each new connection return a chardev?
> >
> > You would need a kind of "factory" interface that knows how to create 
> > a new {monitor,serial port,you name it} for each new connection.  
> > Actually it doesn't make much sense except for monitors.
>
> Monitors and vnc.

VNC also does it's own buffering when reading and writing to a file 
descriptor.  The chardev layer doesn't really have a concept of flow 
control.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori