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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/1] User space notifications about VM cloning
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    Hello all,

    Some time has passed since I sent this. Any comments/thoughts?

    On 31/5/23 11:51, Babis Chalios wrote:
    > This patch revisits the story of user space notification about VM
    > events. It uses uevents to send a notification to user space that the
    > VMGENID has changed, thus we are now in a new VM.
    >
    > Please note, that this is not a "you need to reseed your PRNGs" event,
    > which was what the previous RFC [1] was trying to do. It is, explicitly,
    > meant to be a "you are now running in a new VM" event for the user space
    > to consume, so it can do things like regenerating its MAC addresses and
    > refreshing DHCP. For these cases, we do not want to tie on the "you need
    > to reseed your PRNGs" event, since these do not necessarily get emitted
    > only when VMs get cloned.
    >
    > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/65d872db2e1be29bb03b43ed606e7cc9e74ec08d.camel@infradead.org/T/
    >
    > Babis Chalios (1):
    > vmgenid: emit uevent when VMGENID updates
    >
    > drivers/virt/vmgenid.c | 2 ++
    > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
    >

    Cheers,
    Babis

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