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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:00:21 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add VNC reverse connections
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:27:15PM -0800, Eddie Kohler wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This patch against current CVS adds VNC reverse connections, where the 
>> server connects actively to a waiting client, as in "-vnc rev:5500" or 
>> "-vnc rev:read.cs.ucla.edu:5500".  This is quite useful if the user expects 
>> to run QEMU many times in succession (for example, is debugging a toy OS), 
>> and doesn't want to reopen a VNC client each time.
>>     
>
> We already have the ability to pass multiple flags / options to the VNC
> driver as a post-fix to the host:port pair, so I'm not a fan of introducing
> a new option as a prefix. If using existing options syntax, it could look
> like:
>
>   -vnc :5500,rev
>   -vnc read.cs.ucla.edu:5500,rev
>   

Yes, but please, let's spell out "reverse".  This is a very nice patch 
to have as it's another way (than -daemonize) to reliably connect to the 
vnc server after launching a VM.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
> Dan.
>