Re: [Qemu-devel] Insane virtio-serial semantics

2011-12-08 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 12/08/2011 04:11 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: And yes, I can't help but think of Dave Millers comments long ago that any PV transport is eventually going to reinvent TCP, poorly. No doubt then, no doubt now. But if I remember correctly, we didn't create virtio-seri

Re: [Qemu-devel] Insane virtio-serial semantics

2011-12-08 Thread Markus Armbruster
Anthony Liguori writes: > On 12/07/2011 01:44 PM, Michael Roth wrote: >> On 12/07/2011 07:49 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> On 12/07/2011 02:21 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: [...] > They have the same purpose (which are both vague TBH). The only > reason I'm sy

Re: [Qemu-devel] Insane virtio-serial semantics

2011-12-07 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 12/07/2011 01:44 PM, Michael Roth wrote: On 12/07/2011 07:49 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/07/2011 02:21 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: On 12/06/2011 04:30 PM, Lluís Vilanova wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: I really worry about us introducing so many of these one

Re: [Qemu-devel] Insane virtio-serial semantics

2011-12-07 Thread Michael Roth
On 12/07/2011 07:49 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 12/07/2011 02:21 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: On 12/06/2011 04:30 PM, Lluís Vilanova wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: I really worry about us introducing so many of these one-off paravirtual devices. I would much prefer

Re: [Qemu-devel] Insane virtio-serial semantics

2011-12-07 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 12/07/2011 02:21 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: On 12/06/2011 04:30 PM, Lluís Vilanova wrote: Anthony Liguori writes: I really worry about us introducing so many of these one-off paravirtual devices. I would much prefer that you look at doing this as an extension t

[Qemu-devel] Insane virtio-serial semantics (was: [PATCH v2 4/5] backdoor: [softmmu] Add QEMU-side proxy to "libbackdoor.a")

2011-12-07 Thread Markus Armbruster
Anthony Liguori writes: > On 12/06/2011 04:30 PM, Lluís Vilanova wrote: >> Anthony Liguori writes: >> >>> I really worry about us introducing so many of these one-off paravirtual >>> devices. >>> I would much prefer that you look at doing this as an extension to the >>> ivshmem >>> device as it