Re: Host-guest channel interface advice needed

2008-11-26 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Gleb Natapov wrote: The interfaces that are being considered are netlink socket (only datagram semantics, linux specific), new socket family or character device with different minor number for each channel. Which one better suits for the purpose?  Is there other

Re: Host-guest channel interface advice needed

2008-11-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:07:01PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:39:19PM +0200, Gleb Natapov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The interfaces that are being considered are netlink socket (only datagram semantics, linux specific), new socket family or character device

Host-guest channel interface advice needed

2008-11-26 Thread Gleb Natapov
Hello, I'd like to ask what would be the best user space interface for generic guest-host communication channel. The channel will be used to pass mouse events to/from a guest or by managements software to communicate with agents running in a guests or for something similar. The interfaces that