On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:10:13AM -0500, Ryan O'Hara wrote:
> Our goal in this is to avoid reinventing the wheel if some
existing
> framework can do the job for us. If anybody has recommendations for what
> could provide what we need (remote method calls that works with
> character devices, with cross platform support for windows guests)
> please recommend them.
I believe that any true RPC solution is going to require a
network. Perhaps I am wrong, or perhaps we are not agreeing on what
constitutes RPC.
For me, "rpc" (I'll use quotes and lower case letters) is anything that
allows us to, from the host machine, make function calls on the guest
over virtio.
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