Re: [Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-common] Add a "port" channel

2012-12-02 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, Cool patchset, something like this is exactly what Alon and I envisioned when we changed the usbredir channel code into a generic spicevmc channel. Although our idea was to say that channel ids > 128 were reserved for user-defined use, rather then your fqdn approach with the init message, bu

[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-common] Add a "port" channel

2012-11-30 Thread Marc-André Lureau
A Spice port channel carry arbitrary data between the Spice client and the Spice server. It may be used to provide additional services on top of a Spice connection. For example, a channel can be associated with the qemu monitor for the client to interact with it, just like any qemu chardev. Or it m