On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:22:36PM +0530, Jobin Raju George wrote: > I am trying to establish a communication mechanism between the guest > and its host using virtio-serial. For this I am using the following to > boot the VM: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 \ > -name ubuntu_vm \ > -hda ubuntu \ > -device virtio-serial \ > -chardev socket,path=/tmp/virt_socket,server,nowait,id=virt_socket \ > -device virtconsole,name=v_soc,chardev=virt_socket,name=ubuntu_vm_soc > > This creates a character device on the guest machine and a UNIX socket > on the host machine. > > 1) Is there a way I can create sockets on the host as well as the guest? The syntax is documented on the QEMU man page. Try: -chardev socket,port=1234,server,nowait,id=virt_socket > 2) Is there a way I can create a block device for communication? > > I required a block device since the data that is to be transferred is > huge and the frequency of the data transfer is quite high. Have you benchmarked virtio-serial or is this just a guess? Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
