On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com> wrote: > On (Mon) 20 Jun 2011 [18:24:38], Joel Uckelman wrote: >> I'm trying to set up a unix domain socket with a guest on one end and >> the host on the other, where the server is running on and bound to the >> socket on the guest. I've been able to get the reverse, where the >> server is running on the host, this way: >> >> qemu-kvm -kernel kernel -initrd initrd -hda root -device virtio-serial >> -serial stdio -chardev >> socket,path=/home/uckelman/projects/lightbox/supermin/foo,id=channel0,name=org.libguestfs.channel.0 > > With this, you have a virtio-serial connection between the host and > the guest. The unix socket exists between a client program and the > qemu invocation on the host, with the qemu end being wired to the host > end of the virtio-serial connection. > > You cannot have a unix socket between a host and a guest, they run > different kernels. >
Thanks for the explanation. I was mistaken about how virtio-serial worked---I thought it looked like a unix socket on both sides, and there was some cleverness between the ends to make that happen. I guess this means I need to get networking running on the guest so that it has a port visible to the host on which my server can listen. Is there a guide somewhere for doing that? I've not had any success in an afternoon of searching and trying.
