<div dir="ltr">I am working on this generic virtio-serial interface for appliances. To start with I experimented on existing Wangpan's added feature on hw_qemu_guest agent. I am preparing to propose a blueprint to modify it for generic use and open to collaborate.<div>
<br><div>I could bring up VM with generic source path(say /tmp/appliance_port) and target name(appliance_port). But I see qemu listening on the unix socket in host as soon as I start the VM. If we want to have our server program on host listening, that should not happen. How do I overcome that?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>-Ravi.</div><div> </div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:01 AM, P Balaji-B37839 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:B37839@freescale.com" target="_blank">B37839@freescale.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi Wangpan,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks for Information and suggestions.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We want to have generic virtio-serial interface for Libvirt and applications can use this irrespective of Qemu Guest Agent in VM.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">As suggested, Daniel can throw some light on this and help us.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 25, 2013 3:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Libvirt] Virtio-Serial support for Nova libvirt driver<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">I'm the owner of this bp<span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/qemu-guest-agent-support" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/qemu-guest-agent-support</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">and Daniel Berrange gave me lots of help about implementing this bp, and the original idea of mine is the same as yours.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">So I think the opinion of Daniel will be very useful.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:MingLiU">发件人：</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">balaji patnala <<a href="mailto:patnala003@gmail.com" target="_blank">patnala003@gmail.com</a>></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:MingLiU">发送时间：</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="tel:2013-09-25%C2%A022" value="+12013092522" target="_blank">2013-09-25 22</a>:36</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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[openstack-dev] [Nova] [Libvirt] Virtio-Serial support for Nova libvirt driver</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thanks for your interest on this.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The code check-ins done against the below bp are more specific to Qemu Guest Agent.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Our requirement is to enable Virtio-Serial Interface to the applications running in VM.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:40 PM, P Balaji-B37839 <<a href="mailto:B37839@freescale.com" target="_blank">B37839@freescale.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
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> Virtio-Serial interface support for Nova - Libvirt is not available now. Some VMs who wants to access the Host may need like running qemu-guest-agent or any proprietary software want to use this mode of communication with Host.<br>
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> Qemu-GA uses virtio-serial communication.<br>
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> We want to propose a blue-print on this for IceHouse Release.<br>
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> Anybody interested on this.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Great! We have common interest and I hope we can promote it for IceHouse.<br>
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BTW, do you have a initial plan or description about it.<br>
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And I think this bp may invoke. <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/qemu-guest-agent-support" target="_blank">
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/qemu-guest-agent-support</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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