An update to: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2011-October/005834.html
QEMU has a monitor command 'add_client' which can be used over a UNIX domain socket connection with SCM_RIGHTS, to pass a pre-opened client socket connection FD for graphics displays. This series adds two new APIs for libspice-server.so which enable QEMU to wire up this monitor command for SPICE, as well as VNC. libvirt in turn exposes the QEMU monitor command via a new virDomainOpenConsole API. Finally virt-viewer can use this libvirt API to connect to VNC/SPICE, by passing across one end of a socketpair. The benefit of this approach, over just connecting to the TCP/UNIX server socket of QEMU directly are multiple. The TCP socket may have authenticatin enabled, which is redundant if libvirt is authenticating clients invoking virDomainOpenConsole. The UNIX socket may not be accessible by the virt-viewer application, while it can access libvirt. In v2: - Move SPICE_GNUC_VISIBLE attributes to correct patch - Refactor reds_accept to call spice_server_add_client - Add ASSERT()s in both new public APIs - Rename skipAuth to skip_auth _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
