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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:22:53 +0200
From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice project is now open
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Yaniv Kamay <ykamay@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:06:47 -0600
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:

> Izik Eidus wrote:
> > I want to add that qemu is not the sole user of spice, Spice will be
> > used as a protocol to connect into physical windows/linux
> > machines....
> >
> > So how can we change the library just for qemu?
> >   
> A library is not necessarily a problem.
> 
> What would be a probably is if the library maintains guest visible 
> state.  There are a lot of advantages to keeping qemu as the sole 
> maintainer of guest visible state as it simplifies things like live 
> migration.  More importantly, it allows us to do things like Avi's 
> suggested security sandboxing using seccomp().  For that to work, we 
> need to make sure that we can isolate any code that interacts
> directly with the guest.

Spice guest visible state inside qemu is just its PCI QXL device.
This part is qemu specificed.


> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori