From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:40:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20090624164049.GE14121@shareable.org> References: <1245760953-32139-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1245760953-32139-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Amit Shah Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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