Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH v1 07/12] qmp proxy: core code for proxying qmp requests to guest

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/25/2011 04:56 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
>> I don't quite follow what this is doing.
>>
>
>
> That's for the session negotiation so we can reset state when the 
> guest agent restarts. The sequence is:
>
> guest -> host
> { "_xport_event": "guest_init", "_xport_arg_sid": <random session id> }
>
> host -> guest
> { "_xport_event": "host_ack", "_xport_arg_sid": <received session id> }
>
> Guest will ignore anything it gets until it sees an ack with the 
> proper session id, host will cancel outstanding requests when it 
> receives a guest init. If there's already an event waiting to be sent 
> we clobber it since for the above exchange only the most recent event 
> we sent matters.
>
> We send them as json objects, but they get handled at transport level 
> and terminate there.

Doesn't an invalid UTF-8 sequence provide the same functionality?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori