From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FI6ta-0008G4-NF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:24:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FI6tX-0008Fc-K8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:24:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FI6tX-0008FZ-F4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:24:43 -0500 Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FI6x5-0000Nj-DG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:28:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4412F9C8.8070508@gmx.de> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:24:40 +0100 From: Oliver Gerlich MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remote console access though socket References: <20060308145211.GG346@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20060308145211.GG346@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: veillard@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEEvnHTFOM6DcNJ6cRAhe4AJ9LAQwIb25gCuIHKiRoIMLwJzkt4wCgoEXh kjk2Gejn8X+p1tyCeryHqYA= =z3wY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----