[libvirt] [PATCH 0/5] Add API to tunnel channels

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Dec 13 17:48:10 UTC 2012


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:24:15AM -0500, John Eckersberg wrote:
> This series enables the qemu driver to tunnel a virtio channel.  This
> is useful for a remote session to communicate with a guest channel via
> the streaming API.
> 
> This was originally fleshed out a while back in this thread:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-September/msg01049.html
> 
> This implements only item (3) in that list.
> 
> The new API is nearly identical to the existing virDomainOpenConsole
> API, except it works on channels, and supports UNIX sockets in
> addition to PTYs for channel source type.
> 
> This is my first libvirt patch, please be gentle :)

I've not done a detailed review, but in general it all looks sane
to me. It'll have to wait until after our current pending release
until we in a position to consider applying it though.

Daniel
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