[Spice-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Add new libspice-server.so APIs for injecting client sockets

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:32:10AM +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 04:10:58PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > QEMU has a monitor command 'add_client' which can be used over
> > a UNIX domain socket connection with SCM_RIGHTS, to pass a
> > pre-opened client socket connection FD for graphics displays.
> > This series adds two new APIs for libspice-server.so which
> > enable QEMU to wire up this monitor command for SPICE, as
> > well as VNC.
> > 
> > libvirt in turn exposes the QEMU monitor command via a new
> > virDomainOpenConsole API. Finally virt-viewer can use this
> > libvirt API to connect to VNC/SPICE, by passing across one
> > end of a socketpair. The benefit of this approach, over just
> > connecting to the TCP/UNIX server socket of QEMU directly
> > are multiple. The TCP socket may have authenticatin enabled,
> > which is redundant if libvirt is authenticating clients
> > invoking virDomainOpenConsole. The UNIX socket may not be
> > accessible by the virt-viewer application, while it can
> > access libvirt.
> > 
> 
> Looks good. Just one thing - is this supposed to get into RHEL at some
> point? since there the 0.8 branch is used, this will need to be
> backported to 0.8. The code there is different enough that it will be
> some work.

No, I'm only interested in Fedora 17, and the close QEMU 1.0 release.

Regards,
Daniel
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