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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communic
From: |
Amit Shah |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:34:04 +0530 |
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Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
On (Thu) Aug 06 2009 [08:58:01], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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?
The permission part can be handled by package maintainers and sysadmins
via udev policies.
So all data destined for dbus consumption gets to a daemon and that
daemon then sends it over to dbus.
Amit
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/08/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Jamie Lokier, 2009/08/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/08/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Amit Shah, 2009/08/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/08/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Amit Shah, 2009/08/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/08/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication,
Amit Shah <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Jamie Lokier, 2009/08/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Amit Shah, 2009/08/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/08/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Amit Shah, 2009/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/08/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest communication, Anthony Liguori, 2009/08/10