Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Tunnel character device data over VNC (v1)

[Anthony Liguori]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The following two patches make it possible to tunnel character devices
> over VNC, using a new VNC extension. This is motivated by the existing
> QEMU support for tunnelling audio streams over VNC, and the code follows
> a very similar design.  The key requirement here is that it should not
> be neccessary to specifically configure each character device to make
> it available via VNC. The admin should be able to configure the char
> devices with all current available backends (file, pty, null, tcp, udp,
> unix, etc), and regardless of this config be able to snoop on data from
> any active VNC client on demand.
>   

Shouldn't it just be the character devices put on vc's?

Does snooping imply read-only?  That would be pretty unfortunate.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori