Re: [Qemu-devel] unix domain socket communication with guests

[Joel Uckelman]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Amit Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I guess this means I need to get networking running on the guest so
>> that it has a port visible to the host on which my server can listen.
>> Is there a guide somewhere for doing that? I've not had any success in
>> an afternoon of searching and trying.
>
> Can't say I understand what you're trying to accomplish.  If you want
> to just pass data between a guest and host w/o networking,
> virtio-serial is one way of doing it.  If you have networking enabled
> and the host and guest can talk to each other, TCP or UDP
> communication will work as usual.
>
>                Amit

I have a server which I want to run on the guest, and one or more
clients which I want to run on the host. So, I need something I can
bind(2) to on the guest side, and something I can connect(2) to on the
host side. Is that clearer? Is this possible to do with virtio-serial?