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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Vmchannel PCI device.
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:41:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812150041.43298.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081214115027.4028.56164.stgit@dhcp-1-237.tlv.redhat.com>

On Sunday 14 December 2008, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> There is a need for communication channel between host and various
> agents that are running inside a VM guest. The channel will be used
> for statistic gathering, logging, cut & paste, host screen resolution
> changes notification, guest configuration etc.

I thin the description you're looking for is "serial port" :-)

> The patch implements separate PCI device for this type of communication.
> To create a channel "-vmchannel channel:dev" option should be specified
> on qemu commmand line during VM launch.

Needs documentation.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-15  0:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-14 11:50 [PATCH] Vmchannel PCI device Gleb Natapov
2008-12-14 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2008-12-14 13:12   ` Gleb Natapov
2008-12-14 19:15     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-14 19:37       ` Gleb Natapov
2008-12-14 22:52         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-15  9:20           ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-15  9:25           ` Dan Kenigsberg
2008-12-15 15:43           ` Dan Kenigsberg
2008-12-14 22:13       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-14 22:56         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-14 23:33           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-15  1:18             ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-12-15  2:03             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-15  9:47               ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-14 19:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-14 19:44   ` Gleb Natapov
2008-12-15  0:41 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-12-15  1:50   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori

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