Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication

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Amit Shah wrote:
> A few sample uses for a vmchannel are to share the host and guest
> clipboards (to allow copy/paste between a host and a guest), to
> lock the screen of the guest session when the vnc viewer is closed,
> to find out which applications are installed on a guest OS even when
> the guest is powered down (using virt-inspector) and so on.

Those all look like useful features.

Can you run an application to provide those features on a guest which
_doesn't_ have a vmchannel/virtio-serial support in the kernel?

Or will it be restricted only to guests which have QEMU-specific
support in their kernel?

-- Jamie
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