Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spice: set spice uuid and name

[Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 11:15:48AM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
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> 
> ----- Mensaje original -----
> > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 01:49:22PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > > This allows a Spice client to identify a VM
> >
> > My only problem with this is that if we have a monitor vmcchannel you
> > could issue the command to query that, and much more, without having
> > to
> > add any messages. And adding a monitor channel is really easy - the
> > only
> > requirement being that qemu can handle two monitor users, libvirt and
> > spice.
> 
> Interesting idea, then we would have a Spice "qemu monitor" channel,
> and we would need to do the same job as libvirt-qemu to have a stable
> layer on top. Arguably, we could share their code, but that doesn't seem
> trivial either.

True. It would be simpler if there was a libqemumonitor inside qemu that
libvirt and us used.

> 
> Both approach do not seem incompatible to me.Having a uuid/name Spice API
> can be useful for XSpice or other servers too.
True. Then it makes sense to add this.