On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM Polina Vishneva <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2026-06-22 at 12:00 +0300, Kostiantyn Kostiuk wrote:
> > Hi Polina,
> >
> > First of all, thanks for your patches.
> >
> > Before reviewing this patch, I want to ask: why is it needed?
> >
> > I understand the patch "qemu-sockets: Enable AF_VSOCK on Windows",
> > but AF_VSOCK has the same behavior on Linux and Windows.
> > I expected that we could totally reuse the POSIX part, so just move it to
> > common with
> > some defines like:
> > ```
> > #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
> >         in_ch = g_io_channel_win32_new_fd(in_fd);
> > #else
> >         in_ch = g_io_channel_unix_new(in_fd);
> > #endif
> > ```
> >
> > We tested our driver with SSH over VSOCK, and standard Linux SSH works
> > well.
> > So, what is the difference in this case that you add win32-specific code
> > for VSOCK?
>
> 1. There's no shared GIOChannel path on Windows to #ifdef into.
> channel-posix.c is built on GIOChannels + g_io_add_watch();
> channel-win32.c is built on overlapped I/O over a Win32 HANDLE with a
> reader thread and a custom GSource. There's no in_ch = g_io_channel_*()
> line to wrap. vsock is the first GIOChannel-based channel on Windows.
>
>
I know that currently windows virtio-sock driver does not
support overlapped I/O.
But what if we add it and reuse the same logic with overlapped I/O over a
Win32 HANDLE?
What do you think?

In general, my wish is to simplify new source code and reuse existing one.


> 2. g_io_channel_win32_new_fd() is the wrong constructor, as it's for CRT
> fds, not sockets. GLib wants g_io_channel_win32_new_socket() (it sets up
> WSAEventSelect). And qemu_accept()/socket_listen() return a CRT fd
> wrapping a SOCKET via _open_osfhandle(), so we recover it with
> _get_osfhandle(), which is also why teardown needs the explicit
> qemu_close_socket_osfhandle() ordering, to avoid a double closesocket().
>
> 3. Winsock disconnect detection differs: GLib passes FD_READ|FD_CLOSE as
> one G_IO_IN and Winsock reports FD_CLOSE only once, so a peer that
> writes-then-closes never yields G_IO_HUP and the listener hangs
> half-open. That's why the MSG_PEEK probe logic is required on Windows,
> while on POSIX poll()/epoll() reports POLLHUP reliably and doesn't need
> it.
>
> Best regards,
> Polina.
>
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Kostiantyn Kostiuk.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM Polina Vishneva <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Add vsock-listen channel mode to the Windows guest agent.
> > >
> > > The listen/accept path uses the standard QEMU socket helpers
> > > (socket_parse(), socket_listen(), qemu_accept()) and plugs the
> resulting
> > > SOCKET into the GMainLoop via g_io_channel_win32_new_socket().
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Polina Vishneva <[email protected]>
> > > ---
> > >  docs/interop/qemu-ga.rst |   4 +
> > >  qga/channel-win32.c      | 257 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > >  qga/main.c               |   6 +
> > >  3 files changed, 222 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
> > >
>

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