Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remote console access though socket

[Oliver Gerlich <olig9@gmx.de>]

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Daniel Veillard schrieb:
>   Hi,
> 
> enclosed is a first version of a patch to allow remote access and control
> for QEmu instances, I'm not suggesting to apply it as is (though it seems
> to work in my limited testing) but would rather like to get comments back
> for choices I'm facing. 
[...]
>  There is a number of open questions which would need to be resolved before
> applying any such patch:
>    - First one is the unix socket, we could as easilly start normal port
>      based access but:
>      + I would really like to be able to list the current running instance
>        without checking all process on the OS, and mapping in the file
>        system seems the easiest way

Just an idea: how about using "Multicast DNS" (see multicastdns.org)?
IIUC it provides a generic way to find services on a net; and it's
supported at least by MacOSX and with eg. Avahi (see avahi.org) also on
Linux. Not sure about Windows, though...

Regards,
Oliver Gerlich
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