Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add VNC reverse connections

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:27:15PM -0800, Eddie Kohler wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch against current CVS adds VNC reverse connections, where the 
> server connects actively to a waiting client, as in "-vnc rev:5500" or 
> "-vnc rev:read.cs.ucla.edu:5500".  This is quite useful if the user expects 
> to run QEMU many times in succession (for example, is debugging a toy OS), 
> and doesn't want to reopen a VNC client each time.

We already have the ability to pass multiple flags / options to the VNC
driver as a post-fix to the host:port pair, so I'm not a fan of introducing
a new option as a prefix. If using existing options syntax, it could look
like:

  -vnc :5500,rev
  -vnc read.cs.ucla.edu:5500,rev

Regards,
Dan.
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