[Spice-devel] RFC: vdagent-win and virtio-serial

Uri Lublin uril at redhat.com
Thu Oct 18 07:48:59 PDT 2012


On 10/18/2012 12:26 PM, Arnon Gilboa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to make a small change in vdagent-win:
> -move virtio-serial use from vdservice to vdagent
> -remove named pipe between vdservice & vdagent
> pros:
> -make agent independent so it can run separately without service (e.g. 
> single user, testing)
> -simplify service to just a launcher of agents
> -performance - data is currently copied on pipe read/write
> -separation between user sessions, no communication with service
> -easier to debug
>
> Comments anyone?

Sounds good.

Is there a problem with privileges ?
Does any user have permission to open the virtio-serial device ?

Uri.


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