Re: inter VM / PF-VF communication

2011-09-23 Thread Chris Wright
* Sagar Borikar (sagar.bori...@gmail.com) wrote: > Sorry if I am not keeping up on the subject but wanted to know whether > there is any effort going on for inter VM communication / PF-VF > communication (in case of SR-IOV) > I see that most of SR-IOV capable NIC supports mailboxes for that > purpo

Re: inter VM / PF-VF communication

2011-09-22 Thread Sagar Borikar
> I'm not aware of any vendor these days that actually requires a PV driver > for PF-VF communications.  I know some toyed with the idea years ago but I > thought malboxes have become defacto standard. May be because Intel started the mailbox implementation ;). But just wondering from hypervisor po

Re: inter VM / PF-VF communication

2011-09-22 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 09/22/2011 10:23 AM, Sagar Borikar wrote: All, Sorry if I am not keeping up on the subject but wanted to know whether there is any effort going on for inter VM communication / PF-VF communication (in case of SR-IOV) I see that most of SR-IOV capable NIC supports mailboxes for that purpose to

inter VM / PF-VF communication

2011-09-22 Thread Sagar Borikar
All, Sorry if I am not keeping up on the subject but wanted to know whether there is any effort going on for inter VM communication / PF-VF communication (in case of SR-IOV) I see that most of SR-IOV capable NIC supports mailboxes for that purpose to avoid the security hole. Xen has virtual device