From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:40:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090624164049.GE14121@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245760953-32139-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com>
Amit Shah wrote:
> A few sample uses for a vmchannel are to share the host and guest
> clipboards (to allow copy/paste between a host and a guest), to
> lock the screen of the guest session when the vnc viewer is closed,
> to find out which applications are installed on a guest OS even when
> the guest is powered down (using virt-inspector) and so on.
Those all look like useful features.
Can you run an application to provide those features on a guest which
_doesn't_ have a vmchannel/virtio-serial support in the kernel?
Or will it be restricted only to guests which have QEMU-specific
support in their kernel?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-24 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-23 12:42 virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [PATCH] virtio_serial: A char device for simple guest <-> host communication Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [PATCH] virtio-serial: virtio device for simple host <-> guest communication Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-23 15:19 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:19 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:19 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio_serial: A char device for simple guest <-> host communication Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:15 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:15 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 12:55 ` [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication Paul Brook
2009-06-23 12:55 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 12:55 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 13:00 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 13:00 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 13:00 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 13:09 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 13:09 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 13:09 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 13:58 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 13:58 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 14:16 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 14:16 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 14:16 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 14:40 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 14:40 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 14:40 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 13:58 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 14:59 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-06-24 4:15 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-24 4:15 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-24 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rusty Russell
2009-06-24 12:39 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 12:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-25 11:33 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-25 11:33 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-25 11:33 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rusty Russell
2009-06-25 20:49 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-25 20:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-24 12:39 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 16:40 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-06-24 17:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:10 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 17:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 17:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 18:01 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 18:01 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 19:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 19:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-25 4:41 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-25 4:41 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-25 4:41 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 19:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 18:01 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:10 ` Amit Shah
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