Use driver specific connections for guest-agent communication #1925
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I would like the SSH communication to still exist, for other drivers. Similar to how we use sshfs, when no virtfs/virtiofs available ? Specifically I was experimenting with external virtual Machines, using only SSH. I suspect it would also break for VirtualBox... |
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Current Behaviour
At present, Host <-> Guest agent communication is happening via ssh tunnel created for port forwarding. Basically, guest communication is another forwarded port for lima
Proposal
Decouple the port-forwarding and guest <-> host communication. For guest <-> host communication we will make use of native communication channels from each drivers.
Tested bi-directional communication with the below device
With this approach, we would reduce the load on ssh master and also avoid the additional hop that's happening when passed via port-forwarding
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