On (Thu) Aug 06 2009 [08:29:40], Anthony Liguori wrote: > Amit Shah wrote: >> Sure; but there's been no resistance from anyone from including the >> virtio-serial device driver so maybe we don't need to discuss that. >> > > There certainly is from me. The userspace interface is not reasonable > for guest applications to use. One example that would readily come to mind is dbus. A daemon running on the guest that reads data off the port and interacts with the desktop by appropriate dbus commands. All that's needed is a stream of bytes and virtio-serial provides just that. Any more complexity could easily be handled in userspace. Amit -- 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
