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

[Arnon Gilboa]

David Jaša wrote:
> Hi Arnon,
>
> I've hit recently an issue with vdagent-win that after I performed fast
> user switch, the agent or service kept crashing - probably because the
> vdagent competed over non-shareable resource. I know it is a corner
> case, but still - wouldn't move of virtio-serial communication to
> per-user agent make such scenario unfixable?
>
> David
>
>   
same as before, at each moment only a single agent will run - on the 
active session.
what you have mentioned seems like a bug, and it will be even easier to 
fix it that way.
> Arnon Gilboa píše v Čt 18. 10. 2012 v 12:26 +0200:
>   
>> 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?
>>  
>> Thanks,
>> Arnon
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