On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 22:10 +0200, Hervé Poussineau wrote: > Hi, > > Some more information about the VMware backdoor can be found at: > http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/backdoor.html
Are there interesting apps that make use of this? I really don't like the idea of supporting this PV protocol if we're not going to get interesting apps out of it. The project you referenced earlier didn't have source code available (you had to request it privately) and I don't think it's being generally used. The problem with this particular protocol is that it's inherently x86-specific b/c it depends on doing PIO in userspace. If we're just looking to get this functionality, it would be better to do it as a PCI device or something that could actually work on non-x86 architectures. In my mind, vmmouse was worth implementing since the driver already exists and was packaged in a number of distros. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Hervé > > >
