From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:32939) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuZYj-0000IU-0n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:09:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuZYh-0001UU-S2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:09:25 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.160.45]:33588) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RuZYh-0001UL-Jf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:09:23 -0500 Received: by pbaa11 with SMTP id a11so7346761pba.4 for ; Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:09:22 -0800 (PST) Sender: fluxion From: Michael Roth Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 19:09:12 -0600 Message-Id: <1328576953-19701-1-git-send-email-mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/1] qemu-ga: add guest-sync-delimited List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com, mprivozn@redhat.com Sorry for the somewhat redundant cover letter, but needed to note that: This applies on top of "[PATCH v2 0/8] qemu-ga: add support for Windows", and can also be obtained from: git://github.com/mdroth/qemu.git qga-guest-sync-delimited CHANGES SINCE v1: - removed deprecation flag for guest-sync, still useful for some implementations As noted in the commit there's a wiki write-up with more details on what exactly this is for: http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent#QEMU_Guest_Agent_Protocol It's not absolutely required, but it does make dealing with some communication corner cases a heck of a lot easier for stream-based (as opposed to readline-based) client implementations.