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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:40:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090624164049.GE14121@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245760953-32139-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com>

Amit Shah wrote:
> A few sample uses for a vmchannel are to share the host and guest
> clipboards (to allow copy/paste between a host and a guest), to
> lock the screen of the guest session when the vnc viewer is closed,
> to find out which applications are installed on a guest OS even when
> the guest is powered down (using virt-inspector) and so on.

Those all look like useful features.

Can you run an application to provide those features on a guest which
_doesn't_ have a vmchannel/virtio-serial support in the kernel?

Or will it be restricted only to guests which have QEMU-specific
support in their kernel?

-- Jamie

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-24 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1245760953-32139-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com>
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [PATCH] virtio_serial: A char device for simple guest <-> host communication Amit Shah
     [not found] ` <1245760953-32139-2-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com>
2009-06-23 12:42   ` [PATCH] virtio-serial: virtio device for simple host <-> guest communication Amit Shah
2009-06-23 15:15   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio_serial: A char device for simple guest <-> host communication Blue Swirl
     [not found]   ` <1245760953-32139-3-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com>
2009-06-23 15:19     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: virtio device for simple host <-> guest communication Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 12:55 ` [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication Paul Brook
     [not found] ` <200906231355.53557.paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-06-23 13:00   ` Amit Shah
     [not found]   ` <20090623130023.GA32110@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-06-23 13:09     ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 13:58   ` Christian Bornträger
     [not found]   ` <200906231558.33794.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2009-06-23 14:16     ` Paul Brook
     [not found]     ` <200906231516.15470.paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-06-23 14:40       ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 14:59   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-06-24  4:15 ` Rusty Russell
     [not found] ` <200906241345.02051.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-24 12:39   ` Amit Shah
     [not found]   ` <20090624123937.GA14630@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-06-25 11:33     ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]     ` <200906252103.02892.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-06-25 20:49       ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 16:40 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-06-24 17:10   ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
     [not found]   ` <20090624170632.GA24285@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-06-24 17:50     ` Jamie Lokier
     [not found]     ` <20090624175002.GJ14121@shareable.org>
2009-06-24 18:01       ` Amit Shah
     [not found]       ` <20090624180114.GA24906@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-06-24 19:20         ` Jamie Lokier
     [not found]         ` <20090624192027.GT14121@shareable.org>
2009-06-25  4:41           ` Amit Shah

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