Re: Trouble using virStream with callbacks

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On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:43:58PM -0400, Jonathan Lebon wrote:
> > As a test why not try hacking virsh console so that it connects to your
> > virtio serial port, instead of a console. If we assume 'virsh console'
> > is bug-free, that would let you identify whether the flaw is in your host
> > code, or the guest side.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer. Doing a few trivial changes to virsh-console does
> show that it works correctly and pointed out multiple errors in the
> original code (not least of which using VIR_EVENT_* constants instead of
> VIR_STREAM_EVENT_*).
> 
> I have one more question, are there any risks associated with abandoning
> threads and just doing the virEventRunDefaultImpl() in a loop after setting
> up all the callbacks? I'm trying to keep this as simple as possible.

It is perfectly fine to use a single thread for everything. The only
reason virsh console doesn't do that, is that events were retrofitted
to existing code which wasn't event loop friendly, so we had to use a
second thread. One day we might fix virsh to only use one thread....

Daniel
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