From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJVWw-0007t8-13 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:41:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJVWr-0007qG-F8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:41:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33209 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJVWr-0007qA-A8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:40:57 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:59727) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJVWq-0001rd-GQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:40:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:40:49 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication Message-ID: <20090624164049.GE14121@shareable.org> References: <1245760953-32139-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1245760953-32139-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Amit Shah Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Amit Shah wrote: > A few sample uses for a vmchannel are to share the host and guest > clipboards (to allow copy/paste between a host and a guest), to > lock the screen of the guest session when the vnc viewer is closed, > to find out which applications are installed on a guest OS even when > the guest is powered down (using virt-inspector) and so on. Those all look like useful features. Can you run an application to provide those features on a guest which _doesn't_ have a vmchannel/virtio-serial support in the kernel? Or will it be restricted only to guests which have QEMU-specific support in their kernel? -- Jamie