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Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple co
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Jamie Lokier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication |
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Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:40:49 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
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
[Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication, Rusty Russell, 2009/06/24
Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication,
Jamie Lokier <=