On 11/16/10 17:01, Michael Roth wrote: > This set of patches is meant to be applied on top of the recently submitted > Virtproxy v3 patchset. It can also be obtained at: > > git://repo.or.cz/qemu/mdroth.git virtproxy_v3 > > OVERVIEW: > > There are a wide range of use cases motivating the need for a guest agent of > some sort to extend the functionality/usability/control offered by QEMU. Some > examples include graceful guest shutdown/reboot and notifications thereof, > copy/paste syncing between host/guest, guest statistics gathering, file > access, etc. > > Ideally these would all be served by a single, easilly extensible agent that > can be deployed in a wide range of guests. Virtagent is an XMLRPC server, > integrated into QEMU and the Virtproxy guest daemon, aimed at providing this > type of functionality. > > NOTE: The guest agent can potentially be implemented independently of > virtproxy depending on the feedback, we simply make use of it to provide an > abstraction from the actual transport layer (ISA vs. Virtio serial) and use > it's multiplexing capabilities to avoid having to dedicate 2 isa/virtio > serial ports to the virtagent service. Please evaluate these patches as being > seperate from virtproxy. >
Michael, On a general note, while the protocol stuff probably should go into QEMU, then I don't see the actual agent belonging in the QEMU tree. If you put it all together, you are less likely other agents are willing to adopt virtproxy. Cheers, Jes
