On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [17:40:49], Jamie Lokier wrote: > 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? libguestfs currently uses the -net user based vmchannel interface that exists in current qemu. That doesn't need a kernel that doesn't have support for virtio-serial. Amit _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
