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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Ravi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We did this as part of PoC few months back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Daniel can give us more comments on this as he is the lead for Libvirt support in Nova.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Balaji.P<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ravi Chunduru [mailto:ravivsn@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 26, 2013 12:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OpenStack Development Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Libvirt] Virtio-Serial support for Nova libvirt driver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I got this working after I made guest to behave as serial device and host side program as unix socket based client.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now all set to collaborate the BP with the use case.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Ravi.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Ravi Chunduru <<a href="mailto:ravivsn@gmail.com" target="_blank">ravivsn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Ravi.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:01 AM, P Balaji-B37839 <<a href="mailto:B37839@freescale.com" target="_blank">B37839@freescale.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Wangpan,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for Information and suggestions.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Wangpan [mailto:<a href="mailto:hzwangpan@corp.netease.com" target="_blank">hzwangpan@corp.netease.com</a>]
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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</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:SimSun">Hi all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and Daniel Berrange gave me lots of help about implementing this bp, and the original idea of mine is the same as yours.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So I think the opinion of Daniel will be very useful.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:silver">2013-09-25</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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" target="_blank">2013-09-25 22</a>:36</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic"">主</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:MingLiU">题：</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Re: [openstack-dev]
[Nova] [Libvirt] Virtio-Serial support for Nova libvirt driver</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Hi Haomai,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thanks for your interest on this.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><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></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Haomai Wang <<a href="mailto:haomai@unitedstack.com" target="_blank">haomai@unitedstack.com</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></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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> 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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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></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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