Re: [PATCH 1/2] kvm tools: Export DISPLAY ENV as our default host ip address

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On 09/10/2012 04:26 AM, Asias He wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Or you can
>>>> make the guest talk to an internal unix-domain socket, tunnel that
>>>> through virtio-serial, terminate virtio-serial in lkvm, and direct it
>>>> towards the local X socket.
>>>
>>> Doesn't this require some user agent or config modification to the guest?
>>
>> It does, a daemon that listens locally and forwards data over
>> virtio-serial.  But you build your own initrd anyway, don't you?
> 
> Using our custom init file is one use case. User may use distro disk
> image as guest also.

We could push it into the distros, it should be useful for qemu as well.
 This could be done even more properly by adding support for
virtio-serial in X itself (is anything really needed on the client side?)

The only problem is that it is insecure, but maybe
http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/selinux/papers/x11/t1.shtml can help.
 I don't know if it's integrated yet.

> 
>> Another option is ppp-over-virtio-serial.
> 
> Seems this still uses tcp where the link layer changes from ethernet to serial.

Right, you have to terminate it on the host side without routing.


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