Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Share Vmware communication port between devices

2007-08-21 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 22:10 +0200, Hervé Poussineau wrote: > Hi, > > Some more information about the VMware backdoor can be found at: > http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/backdoor.html Are there interesting apps that make use of this? I really don't like the idea of supporting this PV pro

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Share Vmware communication port between devices

2007-08-21 Thread Hervé Poussineau
Hi, Some more information about the VMware backdoor can be found at: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/backdoor.html Hervé

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Share Vmware communication port between devices

2007-08-21 Thread Thomas Frey
On 8/21/07, Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 20:17 +0200, Hervé Poussineau wrote: > > Hi, > > > > VMware registers the port 0x5658 to communicate between guest and host. > > At the moment, vmmouse.c is the only one to use this communication channel, > > so it reg

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Share Vmware communication port between devices

2007-08-21 Thread Anthony Liguori
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 20:17 +0200, Hervé Poussineau wrote: > Hi, > > VMware registers the port 0x5658 to communicate between guest and host. > At the moment, vmmouse.c is the only one to use this communication channel, > so it registers the port. IMO, this design is not right because it will be >

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Share Vmware communication port between devices

2007-08-21 Thread Hervé Poussineau
Hi, VMware registers the port 0x5658 to communicate between guest and host. At the moment, vmmouse.c is the only one to use this communication channel, so it registers the port. IMO, this design is not right because it will be hard to implement other functionalities of VMware. I extracted non-mou