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Inter-VM device emulation (call on Mon 20th July 2020)
From: |
Stefan Hajnoczi |
Subject: |
Inter-VM device emulation (call on Mon 20th July 2020) |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:23:42 +0100 |
Hi,
Several projects are underway to create an inter-VM device emulation
interface:
* ivshmem v2
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg706465.html
A PCI device that provides shared-memory communication between VMs.
This device already exists but is limited in its current form. The
"v2" project updates IVSHMEM's capabilities and makes it suitable as
a VIRTIO transport.
Jan Kiszka is working on this and has posted specs for review.
* virtio-vhost-user
https://www.mail-archive.com/virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org/msg06429.html
A VIRTIO device that transports the vhost-user protocol. Allows
vhost-user device emulation to be implemented by another VM.
Nikos Dragazis is working on this with QEMU, DPDK, and VIRTIO patches
posted.
* VFIO-over-socket
https://github.com/tmakatos/qemu/blob/master/docs/devel/vfio-over-socket.rst
Similar to the vhost-user protocol in spirit but for any PCI device.
Uses the Linux VFIO ioctl API as the protocol instead of vhost.
It doesn't have a virtio-vhost-user equivalent yet, but the same
approach could be applied to VFIO-over-socket too.
Thanos Makatos and John G. Johnson are working on this. The draft
spec is available.
Let's have a call to figure out:
1. What is unique about these approaches and how do they overlap?
2. Can we focus development and code review efforts to get something
merged sooner?
Jan and Nikos: do you have time to join on Monday, 20th of July at 15:00
UTC?
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200720T1500
Video call URL: https://bluejeans.com/240406010
It would be nice if Thanos and/or JJ could join the call too. Others
welcome too (feel free to forward this email)!
Stefan
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RE: Inter-VM device emulation (call on Mon 20th July 2020), Thanos Makatos, 2020/07/15
Re: Inter-VM device emulation (call on Mon 20th July 2020), Stefan Hajnoczi, 2020/07/20