On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Prateek Sharma <prateeks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ? I expect qemu-ga will be merged into qemu-kvm.git when they merge from qemu.git again soon. Mike: I don't see a dmesg command in the guest schema in qemu.git. Is there a recommended way of getting dmesg from the host (maybe read file /var/log/messages)? 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
