Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:10:15 +0100 | From | Gerd Hoffmann <> | Subject | Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 0/6] VSOCK for Linux upstreaming |
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On 01/09/13 03:22, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 05:46:01PM -0800, David Miller wrote: >> I'd much rather see a hypervisor neutral solution than a hypervisor >> specific one which this certainly is. > > Objectively speaking neither solution is hypervisor neutral as there are > hypervisors that implement either VMCI or virtio or something else > entirely.
Indeed. vmchannel is tied to virtio like vsock is tied to vmci.
> Our position is that VSOCK feature set is more complete and that it > should be possible to use transports other than VMCI for VSOCK traffic, > should interested parties implement them,
Implementing other transports requires restructing vsock (and vmci) first as the current vsock code is not a hypervisor neutral service.
cheers, Gerd
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