From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: agl@linux.vnet.ibm.com, stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
markus_mueller@de.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com, abeekhof@redhat.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH v7 00/16] virtagent: host/guest communication agent
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:43:44 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D755190.6020101@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1299528642-23631-1-git-send-email-mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 03/07/2011 02:10 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
> These patches apply to master (3-07-2011), and can also be obtained from:
> git://repo.or.cz/qemu/mdroth.git virtagent_v7
>
> CHANGES IN V7:
>
> - Removed dependency on xmlrpc-c for data transport. Now using JSON via QEMU's qjson qobject<->json conversion routines. Binary encoding mechanisms such as Protocol Buffers and ASN.1/BER were considered, but due to limited library support, and limitations of isa/virtio serial transport that would have required an additional layer of encoding to reliably determine RPC boundaries during transport (more here: http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg56237.html), qobject<->json seemed to be the most prudent route.
Then it needs to be based on QAPI. No point in reinventing the wheel.
It won't be bidirectional though. The guest will only be able to post
events.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-07 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-07 20:10 [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 00/16] virtagent: host/guest communication agent Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 01/16] Move code related to fd handlers into utility functions Michael Roth
2011-03-09 13:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-09 14:11 ` Michael Roth
2011-03-09 14:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-09 15:01 ` Michael Roth
2011-03-09 15:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-09 14:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-09 14:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-09 14:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-09 15:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-09 14:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 02/16] Add qemu_set_fd_handler() wrappers to qemu-tools.c Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 03/16] Make qemu timers available for tools Michael Roth
2011-03-09 10:33 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jes Sorensen
2011-03-09 13:04 ` Michael Roth
2011-03-09 13:06 ` Jes Sorensen
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 04/16] virtagent: bi-directional RPC handling logic Michael Roth
2011-03-07 21:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Adam Litke
2011-03-07 22:35 ` Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 05/16] virtagent: common helpers and init routines Michael Roth
2011-03-09 10:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jes Sorensen
2011-03-09 13:17 ` Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 06/16] virtagent: transport definitions Michael Roth
2011-03-07 21:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Adam Litke
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 07/16] virtagent: base RPC client definitions Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 08/16] virtagnet: base RPC server definitions Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 09/16] virtagent: add va_capabilities HMP/QMP command Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 10/16] virtagent: add "ping" RPC to server Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 11/16] virtagent: add va_ping HMP/QMP command Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 12/16] virtagent: add "shutdown" RPC to server Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 13/16] virtagent: add va_shutdown HMP/QMP command Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 14/16] virtagent: add virtagent chardev Michael Roth
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 15/16] virtagent: qemu-va, system-level virtagent guest agent Michael Roth
2011-03-09 10:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jes Sorensen
2011-03-07 20:10 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH v7 16/16] virtagent: add bits to build virtagent host/guest components Michael Roth
2011-03-07 21:43 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-03-07 22:49 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH v7 00/16] virtagent: host/guest communication agent Michael Roth
2011-03-07 22:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-08 0:11 ` Michael Roth
2011-03-08 0:24 ` Anthony Liguori
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