Re: can multiple virtual domains share the same socket for the guest agent ?

[Tomáš Golembiovský]

Hi,

no, you cannot multiplex the socket. Even if you could it would confuse
the client (libvirt) as well as the agents.

Why would you need such a thing?

    Tomas

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 06:13:26PM +0100, Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm installing in some virtual domains the qemu guest agent.
> Included is also creating a channel for the domain:
> 
> <channel type='unix'>
>    <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/f16x86_64.agent'/>
>    <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
> </channel>
> 
> Can multiple domains share the same socket, here e.g. 
> var/lib/libvirt/qemu/f16x86_64.agent ?
> 
> Bernd
> 
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