[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-protocol] Change usbredir messages to spicevmc messages

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 08/26/2011 10:07 AM, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 01:57:21PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 08/25/2011 01:35 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> Some examples of why having a generic spicevmc pass through is good:
>>>
>>> (5) Redirect the serial or virtio console over spice. Especially with
>>> spice-gtk it should be easy to wind up the spice client side to a
>>> vte widget.
>>
>> Right, so this would be very similar to doing the qemu
>> monitor over a spice channel. So what we need is some spice-gtk
>> code to plug a spicevmc channel into a vte widget, and then
>> we can add both a monitor and a serial-console channel :)
>>
>
> With the current code you would have to let both sides know what the new channels are:
>
> qemu -chardev spicevmc,name=generic,channelid=128,id=mon -mon chardev=mon
> # and same for virtio
>
> spicy --spicevmc channelid=128,handler=vte
> # just an example
>

Right, although I propose that as soon as we've a vte channel handler, we
reserve channel-ids for monitor and serial-console channels, so that the
client will know how to handle these without needing special cmdline
options, and can even represent them in its menu with sensible entries
like: "show qemu monitor" "show serial console X" (we can have
multiple serial consoles)

Regards,

Hans