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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:11:03 +0530
From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org

On (Thu) Aug 06 2009 [08:29:40], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Amit Shah wrote:
>> Sure; but there's been no resistance from anyone from including the
>> virtio-serial device driver so maybe we don't need to discuss that.
>>   
>
> There certainly is from me.  The userspace interface is not reasonable  
> for guest applications to use.

One example that would readily come to mind is dbus. A daemon running on
the guest that reads data off the port and interacts with the desktop by
appropriate dbus commands. All that's needed is a stream of bytes and
virtio-serial provides just that.

Any more complexity could easily be handled in userspace.

		Amit