Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] virtio-serial-bus: Add support for buffering guest output, throttling guests

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) Jan 12 2010 [09:46:55], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/12/2010 09:13 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
>> On (Tue) Jan 12 2010 [09:00:52], Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>    
>>> On 01/12/2010 01:16 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
>>>      
>>>> BTW I don't really want this too, I can get rid of it if everyone agrees
>>>> we won't support clipboard writes>   4k over vnc or if there's a better
>>>> idea.
>>>>
>>>>        
>>> Why bother trying to preserve message boundaries?   I think that's the
>>> fundamental question.
>>>      
>> For the vnc clipboard copy-paste case, I explained that in the couple of
>> mails before in this thread.
>>    
>
> It didn't make sense to me.  I think the assumption has to be that the  
> client can send corrupt data and the host has to handle it.

You mean if the guest kernel sends the wrong flags? Or doesn't set the
flags? Can you explain what scenario you're talking about?

                Amit