Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] VirtIO RNG

[Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>> Im not sure I agree there... surely there are other things which would
>> benefit from generic socket reconnection support (virtio-rng cant be the
>> only driver that might want to rely on a reliable source of data via a
>> socket in a server-farm type situation?)
> 
> Usually qemu takes the server part, i.e. for serial ports you usually do
> '-serial telnet::$port,server,nowait', then 'telnet $host $port' to
> connect to your virtual serial line.  When the connection drops, just
> re-run telnet.
>
> In my usage of qemu I didn't came across a use case which needs qemu
> reconnecting yet.

You're comparing apples with oranges :-)

That example is the opposite of whats happening in my case - qemu must
act as a client in order to connect to an EGD daemon. There is not other
choice. I'm sure one could come up with any number of cases where qemu
as a client might want to reconnect to the host.

Seriously, if virtio-rng is the only thing on qemu that acts as a socket
*client* I'd be amazed.

And really, is having the ability to reconnect to a service so terrible?

-Ian