Thanks. Will this work if the guest or host are different combo - for instance ubuntu/debian or fedora/ubuntu? In other words, is there anything generic other than using the sockets ? Am ok to use PCI to communicate too if that can improve performance. Any pointers would be helpful. --Nirmal On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
