On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Prateek Sharma <prateeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any equivalent of qemu's virtagent in qemu-kvm?
[http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-01/msg02149.html] .
In particular , i want to share pages between KVM guests and the host . Is
there an appropriate mechanism for this in existence which i could use ?
Another nice feature virtagent provides is the ability to see guest dmesg
output in the host...
virtagent doesn't share pages between guest and host AFAIK.
Have you looked at hw/ivshmem.c?
Most of the time you don't need to actually share pages between guest
and host. Use existing mechanisms like networking or serial to
communicate instead.
Stefan
Thanks for the quick response!
I was tempted by virtagent because it provides dmesg output directly, something
which is exactly what i need.
Anyway, looks like i'll need to fallback to serial/networking, as you suggested.
On a related note, is porting virtagent to qemu-kvm
possible/useful/in-the-pipeline ?
--Prateek
