On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 02:14:44PM +, Jorgen S. Hansen wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> All datagram communication in VMCI based AF_VSOCK is going through the host -
> also for loopback communication. The only difference wrt loopback is that the
> VMCI queue pairs implementing the shared queues for
: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 3:43 PM
To: Jorgen S. Hansen
Cc: cav...@redhat.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: AF_VSOCK loopback
Hi Jorgen,
Cathy Avery found that the AF_VSOCK VMCI transport does loopback inside
the guest (but not on th
I had trouble with loopback on the esx host. Using the nc-vsock (
AF_VSOCK 56 ) the server and the client connected but they both
terminated without error when I attempted to send characters over. It
might be due to something other than vsock. I haven't pursued it yet.
On 11/10/2016 09:43 AM,
Hi Jorgen,
Cathy Avery found that the AF_VSOCK VMCI transport does loopback inside
the guest (but not on the host?). The virtio transport currently does
no loopback.
The loopback scenario I'm thinking of is where process A listens on port
1234 and process B on the same machine connects to port
