Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice project is now open

[Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:06:47 -0600
> Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>
>> Izik Eidus wrote:
>> > I want to add that qemu is not the sole user of spice, Spice will be
>> > used as a protocol to connect into physical windows/linux
>> > machines....
>> >
>> > So how can we change the library just for qemu?
>> >
>> A library is not necessarily a problem.
>>
>> What would be a probably is if the library maintains guest visible
>> state.  There are a lot of advantages to keeping qemu as the sole
>> maintainer of guest visible state as it simplifies things like live
>> migration.  More importantly, it allows us to do things like Avi's
>> suggested security sandboxing using seccomp().  For that to work, we
>> need to make sure that we can isolate any code that interacts
>> directly with the guest.
>
> Spice guest visible state inside qemu is just its PCI QXL device.
> This part is qemu specificed.
>

But this part can work together with vnc with no problems, right?
If this is so, why don't we just start by merging it, while trying
to make the case for the rendering protocol in parallel ?

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