On 11/05/12 19:19, Andy King wrote: > Hi David, > >> The big and only question is whether anyone can actually use any of >> this stuff without your proprietary bits? > > Do you mean the VMCI calls? The VMCI driver is in the process of being > upstreamed into the drivers/misc tree. Greg (cc'd on these patches) is > actively reviewing that code and we are addressing feedback. > > Also, there was some interest from RedHat into using vSockets as a unified > interface, routed over a hypervisor-specific transport (virtio or > otherwise, although for now VMCI is the only one implemented).
Can you outline how this can be done? From a quick look over the code it seems like vsock has a hard dependency on vmci, is that correct? When making vsock a generic, reusable kernel service it should be the other way around: vsock should provide the core implementation and an interface where hypervisor-specific transports (vmci, virtio, xenbus, ...) can register themself. cheers, Gerd _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
