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

[Arnon Gilboa]

Itamar Heim wrote:
> 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?
>
> how would backward compatibility or upgrade path look like?
nothing changed with regards to backward compatibility and upgrade path. 
it's only an internal implementation issue.