Amit Shah wrote: > On (Thu) Aug 06 2009 [08:29:40], Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Amit Shah wrote: >> >>> Sure; but there's been no resistance from anyone from including the >>> virtio-serial device driver so maybe we don't need to discuss that. >>> >>> >> There certainly is from me. The userspace interface is not reasonable >> for guest applications to use. >> > > One example that would readily come to mind is dbus. A daemon running on > the guest that reads data off the port and interacts with the desktop by > appropriate dbus commands. All that's needed is a stream of bytes and > virtio-serial provides just that. > dbus runs as an unprivileged user, how does dbus know which virtio-serial port to open and who sets the permissions on that port? Regards, Anthony Liguori _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
