On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 02:52:05PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
Update the daemon to recognise a guestfs_vmchannel argument of the form "virtio-serial:<name>". The daemon will expect a virtio-serial device to be available locally at /dev/virtio-ports/<name>.
What I want to do here is to remove all the other methods and just use virtio-serial always. virtio-serial is now available on all the platforms we care about (possibly excluding RHEL 5, where it is being added). As you noted, it is also much faster than the current SLIRP-based network. If virtio-serial is the only supported option, then we can remove the guestfs_vmchannel= option entirely (and good riddance). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html