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

[Arnon Gilboa]

Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> ----- Mensaje original -----
>   
>> 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?
>>     
>
> What is the drawback? Wasn't the idea to have one service and an agent per user? (that's how it works on Linux) How does that work today on Windows?
>   
it will stay that way :)
cons: when switching between users client will switch to server mode for 
a few ms