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* '''Name:''' [[User:Ozancaglayan|Ozan Çağlayan]] | * '''Name:''' [[User:Ozancaglayan|Ozan Çağlayan]] | ||
* '''Email:''' ozancag@gmail.com | * '''Email:''' ozancag@gmail.com | ||
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* Track my progress [https://github.com/ozancaglayan/qemu/tree/copy-paste/session-agents here] | |||
=== Communication between session-level agents and qemu-ga === | === Communication between session-level agents and qemu-ga === | ||
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* '''Email:''' agr.pallav@gmail.com | * '''Email:''' agr.pallav@gmail.com | ||
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* Track my progress [https://github.com/agrpallav/qemu-copypaste here] | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection | [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection | ||
Revision as of 11:15, 27 June 2013
Summary
Users have come to expect copy-paste between host and guest to work. This is also called clipboard sharing and makes it easier to work with graphical guests.
Details
We need session-level agents that need to talk to the host front-ends to do the clipboard synchronization. We also know that at some point, multiple session-level agents should be supported for multiple users/display servers. qemu-ga will have all the logic to proxy requests from these session-level agents up to the host via a shared virtio-serial channel.
So the overall work has been splitted into two parts:
- Developing an initial session-level agent for clipboard synchronization
- Handling communication between session-level agents and qemu-ga
Session-level clipboard synchronization agent
A per-session guest agent is needed to listen X11 PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections [0]. This agent will register to the GTK events related to those X11 selections and relay them to the session-level multiplexer probably using JSON. This is for the guest->host direction. The other direction will be supported as well.
Owner
- Name: Ozan Çağlayan
- Email: ozancag@gmail.com
Status
- Track my progress here
Communication between session-level agents and qemu-ga
A qemu-ga software needs to be installed in the guest system for this to work. Whenever a new session is initiated for a guest, a session specific process would start in the guest, which will talk to the qemu-ga service via a unix socket which in turn will communicate with the hypervisor on the host via a virtio-serial socket to transfer the content between the guest and the host.
Owner
- Name: Pallav Agrawal
- Email: agr.pallav@gmail.com
Status
- Track my progress here