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

[Arnon Gilboa]

Uri Lublin 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?
>
> Sounds good.
>
> Is there a problem with privileges ?
vdservice runs vdagent as SYSTEM
> Does any user have permission to open the virtio-serial device ?
vdagent must be ran "as admin" to open the device
>
> Uri.
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