On (Tue) Jan 19 2010 [17:59:33], Jamie Lokier wrote: > > What happens if the guest crashes, kexecs or whatever when it's half > way through sending a cut buffer? A stream protocol will not have a > nice way to recover from that unless there is an additional "out of > band" way to say "I'm starting again". Does virtio-serial have an > "I'm starting again" which is passed to the host side application?
That's what I meant when I was talking about the START and END delimiters. I've removed those for now though. Something like what you suggest can be added later on. Amit