Re: [uml-user] Host and UML interaction mechanism

[Jeff D. <jd...@ad...>]

fer...@ag... said:
> For example, if the host writes 'ls -l' in the mconsole socket, the
> daemon in the UML heard it and executes 'ls -l' (even returning the
> output of the command back to the host by the socket).
>
> Do I catch the point? 

Yes, exactly.

> I would like to implement this mechanism in our
> VNUML tool (http://www.dit.upm.es/vnuml). Any suggestion/idea/sample
> code, etc? 

Look at write_proc_mconsole in arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c.  You would need
to add a read_proc_mconsole, and add send support to the client.

				Jeff