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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Split machine creation from the main loop
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, quintela@redhat.com

On 02/28/2011 03:13 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 10:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 02/28/2011 09:20 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We should have another abstraction for connection based backend.  I'll
>>>> take a go at this when I'm ready to try to get those patches in.
>>>
>>> Shouldn't each new connection return a chardev?
>>
>> You would need a kind of "factory" interface that knows how to create 
>> a new {monitor,serial port,you name it} for each new connection.  
>> Actually it doesn't make much sense except for monitors.
>
> Monitors and vnc.

VNC also does it's own buffering when reading and writing to a file 
descriptor.  The chardev layer doesn't really have a concept of flow 
control.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori