devel@lists.zephyrproject.org | Is it possible to have two processes communicate in ARM Qemu?

Yie

#1034

Hi,

Is there an inter-process communication functionality on Zephyr running on Linux for Qemu?

I have an application on Zephyr that gets data from an external source. However, since I do not have the actual device, I will be emulating this on Qemu. So I will have 2 applications, one solely for generating the output.

However, how can these two applications communicate? I know this can be done in C using named pipes. Is it possible to do that with Zephyr as well?

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Cheers,
Yie

Andrei

#1035

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 09:16:21PM +1200, Hui Yie Teh wrote:
   Hi,

   Is there an inter-process communication functionality on Zephyr running on
   Linux for Qemu? 
   I have an application on Zephyr that gets data from an external source.
   However, since I do not have the actual device, I will be emulating this
   on Qemu. So I will have 2 applications, one solely for generating the
   output. 
   However, how can these two applications communicate? I know this can be
   done in C using named pipes. Is it possible to do that with Zephyr as
   well?We use QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS for providing this parameter for QEMU, for
example in bluetooth we may run btproxy on Linux host and
QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS like following:

QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS = -serial unix:/tmp/bt-server-bredr

Best regards 
Andrei Emeltchenko

Yie

#1038

Hi Andrei,

Thanks for your reply. Are there any other QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS that allows applications to communicate with one another without using bluetooth? Like named pipes in C?

Cheers.

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On 21 September 2017 at 21:54, Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko.news@...> wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 09:16:21PM +1200, Hui Yie Teh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an inter-process communication functionality on Zephyr running on
> Linux for Qemu?
> I have an application on Zephyr that gets data from an external source.
> However, since I do not have the actual device, I will be emulating this
> on Qemu. So I will have 2 applications, one solely for generating the
> output.
> However, how can these two applications communicate? I know this can be
> done in C using named pipes. Is it possible to do that with Zephyr as
> well?

We use QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS for providing this parameter for QEMU, for
example in bluetooth we may run btproxy on Linux host and
QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS like following:

QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS = -serial unix:/tmp/bt-server-bredr

Best regards
Andrei Emeltchenko

Andrei

#1042

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 09:52:49AM +1200, Hui Yie Teh wrote:
   Hi Andrei,

   Thanks for your reply. Are there any other QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS that allows
   applications to communicate with one another without using bluetooth? Like
   named pipes in C? You can just change it whatever you like it. In our case btproxy creates
/tmp/bt-server-bredr and qemu connects to it and present to guest OS as
a serial device.

Best regards 
Andrei Emeltchenko 

   Cheers.
   On 21 September 2017 at 21:54, Andrei Emeltchenko
   <[1]andrei.emeltchenko.news@gmail.com> wrote:

     Hi,
     On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 09:16:21PM +1200, Hui Yie Teh wrote:
     >    Hi,
     >
     >    Is there an inter-process communication functionality on Zephyr
     running on
     >    Linux for Qemu? 
     >    I have an application on Zephyr that gets data from an external
     source.
     >    However, since I do not have the actual device, I will be emulating
     this
     >    on Qemu. So I will have 2 applications, one solely for generating
     the
     >    output. 
     >    However, how can these two applications communicate? I know this
     can be
     >    done in C using named pipes. Is it possible to do that with Zephyr
     as
     >    well?

     We use QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS for providing this parameter for QEMU, for
     example in bluetooth we may run btproxy on Linux host and
     QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS like following:

     QEMU_EXTRA_FLAGS = -serial unix:/tmp/bt-server-bredr

     Best regards
     Andrei Emeltchenko

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