On (Thu) Jul 29 2010 [16:17:48], Nirmal Guhan wrote: > Hi, > > I run Fedora 12 and guest is also Fedora 12. I use br0/tap0 for > networking and communicate between host<->guest using socket. I do > see some references to virtio, pci based ipc and inter-vm shared > memory but they are not current. My question is : Is there a better > IPC mechanism for host<->guest and intern vm communication and if so > could you provide me with pointers? There's virtio-serial, which is a channel between a guest and the host. You can short-circuit two host-side chardevs to get inter-VM channels as well. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial for more info. This is only available from F13, though. 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
