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On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Michele Paolino < m.paol...@virtualopensystems.com> wrote: > This series adds support for the QEMU vhost-user feature to libvirt. > vhost-user enables the communication between a QEMU virtual machine > and other userspace process using the Virtio transport protocol. > It uses a char dev (e.g. Unix socket) for the control plane, > while the data plane based on shared memory. > > The XML looks like: > > <interface type='vhostuser'> > <source type='unix' path='/tmp/vhost.sock' mode='server'/> > <mac address='52:54:00:3b:83:1a'/> > <model type='virtio'/> > </interface> > > Our use case is the deployment of Snabbswitch in an OpenStack/NFV > environment. Snabbswitch uses a Unix socket to implement the > vhost-user control plane, thus we focused on the support for the > type=unix attribute of the <source> element. > To test it with Snabbswitch, it is necessary to apply the > following patches (respectively from Chen Fan and Michele Paolino): > http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-June/msg01195.html > http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-June/msg01418.html > > It is also possible to directly checkout the Virtual Open Systems' > libvirt repository(branch "vhost-user_support) at the address: > https://github.com/virtualopensystems/libvirt. > > This patch is based on the previous work from Luke Gorrie: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-May/msg00934.html > > Michele Paolino (4): > vhost-user support: domain configuration > vhost-user support: qemu command-line > vhost-user support: tests and docs > vhost-user support: lxc,xenxs,uml > > docs/formatdomain.html.in | 34 +++++++++ > docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 39 +++++++++++ > src/conf/domain_conf.c | 81 > ++++++++++++++++++++++ > src/conf/domain_conf.h | 10 ++- > src/lxc/lxc_process.c | 1 + > src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++ > src/uml/uml_conf.c | 5 ++ > src/xenxs/xen_sxpr.c | 1 + > .../qemuxml2argv-net-vhostuser.args | 7 ++ > .../qemuxml2argv-net-vhostuser.xml | 33 +++++++++ > tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 1 + > tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 1 + > 12 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-net-vhostuser.args > create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-net-vhostuser.xml > > -- > 1.9.3 > >
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