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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [snabb-devel:276] Re: snabbswitch integration with
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On 05/28/2013 02:48 PM, Luke Gorrie wrote:
> On 28 May 2013 13:53, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com
> <mailto:mst@redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Implementing out of process device logic would absolutely be useful for
>     qemu, for security.
> 
> 
> This sounds wonderful from my perspective. The whole PCI device
> implemented in my process according to the Virtio spec? What would it
> take to make this possible?

AFAICS this can be implemented as a new device in qemu without touching
qemu internals. Except for a way to get file descriptors for guest
memory. I'll give it a shot today and tomorrow and we'll see how far I
get...

Julian