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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH v7 01/16] Move code related to fd
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To: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: agl@linux.vnet.ibm.com, stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com, abeekhof@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com, aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com, markus_mueller@de.ibm.com

On 03/09/2011 04:01 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
>
> These objs: virtagent.o virtagent-server.o virtagent-common.o
> virtagent-transport.o virtagent-manager.o
>
> Are shared by qemu and qemu-va.

Okay, that's what I missed.  Then I guess it's a pity but there's a good
reason.

> It seems like a more general one though, that might benefit consumers
> other than virtagent. So if this is addressed at some point,
> consumers of the common infrastructure proposed here would all
> benefit.

I doubt, Win32 sockets are almost unusable (QEMU does "select" on them 
when it has an event from something else) and chardevs use a separate 
polling mechanism.

Paolo