On Thu, 2019-05-23 at 15:41 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Also, not sure I understand how the client is started?
>
> The vhost-user device backend can be launched before QEMU. QEMU is
> started with the UNIX domain socket path so it can connect.
Hmm. I guess I'm confusing the terminology th
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 3:25 PM Johannes Berg wrote:
> Not sure I understand why there's all this stuff about multiple FDs,
> once you have access to the guest's memory, why do you still need a
> second (or more) FDs?
The memory regions could be different files (maybe additional RAM was
hotplugge
Hi Stefan,
> Check out vhost-user. It's a protocol for running a subset of a VIRTIO
> device's emulation in a separate process (usually just the data plane
> with the PCI emulation and other configuration/setup still handled by
> QEMU).
Yes, I think that's basically what I'm looking for.
> vhos
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 03:02:38PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While my main interest is mostly in UML right now [1] I've CC'ed the
> qemu and virtualization lists because something similar might actually
> apply to other types of virtualization.
>
> I'm thinking about adding virt-io su
On 22/05/2019 14:46, Johannes Berg wrote:
Hi Anton,
I'm thinking about adding virt-io support to UML, but the tricky part is
that while I want to use the virt-io basics (because it's a nice
interface from the 'inside'), I don't actually want the stock drivers
that are part of the kernel now
Hi Anton,
> > I'm thinking about adding virt-io support to UML, but the tricky part is
> > that while I want to use the virt-io basics (because it's a nice
> > interface from the 'inside'), I don't actually want the stock drivers
> > that are part of the kernel now (like virtio-net etc.) but rathe
On 22/05/2019 14:02, Johannes Berg wrote:
Hi,
While my main interest is mostly in UML right now [1] I've CC'ed the
qemu and virtualization lists because something similar might actually
apply to other types of virtualization.
I'm thinking about adding virt-io support to UML, but the tricky p
Hi,
While my main interest is mostly in UML right now [1] I've CC'ed the
qemu and virtualization lists because something similar might actually
apply to other types of virtualization.
I'm thinking about adding virt-io support to UML, but the tricky part is
that while I want to use the virt-io bas
