From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MO6ZD-0005Tx-HM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:02:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MO6Z8-0005Rl-Iy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:02:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41960 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MO6Z8-0005Rh-Eh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:02:18 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:35138) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MO6Z7-0005hQ-Sg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:02:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:02:13 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] bidirectional data exchange between guest and host without network Message-ID: <20090707090213.GB5690@shareable.org> References: <59673.89.3.148.243.1246956346.squirrel@webmail.aql.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <59673.89.3.148.243.1246956346.squirrel@webmail.aql.fr> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Lannuzel Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Anthony Lannuzel wrote: > I want the host to be able to communicate with the host without using the > guest networking interfaces, is there a way this can be bidirectional ? > Here is what I have tested so far (command line options): virtio-serial was designed for exactly this sort of thing. Patches appear on the list from time to time. -- Jamie