Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remote console access though socket

[Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:00:13AM -0800, wanderer@ipinc.net wrote:
> I placed a patch on The Qemu Forum (qemu.dad-answers.com) that already 
> provides this capability in a more inclusive manner. That is, you can remote 
> the console (monitor) through any active pty or pipe process. Telnet could be 
> one choice to get the functionality you are getting at here.
> 
> Then again, perhaps I misunderstood your code entirely. Take a look and see. 

  Sounds different to me. For pipe, you need to launch the qemu program
in a given way, you can't attach to it later (and /proc/$pid/fd/* trick
is really limited to Linux).
  W.r.t. PTY access I assume only one program can locally attach to
it, my patch may allow:
   - remote access if using port based access
   - multiple simultaneous external access

So I tend to think the goals and use are differents, it's not about
redirecting console, but rather allow remote asynchonous control over
qemu instance(s).

Daniel

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