From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com,
vm-crosstalk@vmware.com, davem@davemloft.net,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] VSOCK for Linux upstreaming
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 10:00:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121106100021.538486e7@s6510.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121105175730.21472.99155.stgit@promb-2n-dhcp175.eng.vmware.com>
On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:00:38 -0800
George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com> wrote:
> * * *
> This series of VSOCK linux upstreaming patches include latest udpate from
> VMware.
>
> Summary of changes:
> - Add include/linux/socket.h for AF_VSOCK.
> - Cleanup some comments.
> - Cleanup makefiles.
>
>
>
> * * *
>
> In an effort to improve the out-of-the-box experience with Linux
> kernels for VMware users, VMware is working on readying the Virtual
> Machine Communication Interface (vmw_vmci) and VMCI Sockets (VSOCK)
> (vmw_vsock) kernel modules for inclusion in the Linux kernel. The
> purpose of this post is to acquire feedback on the vmw_vsock kernel
> module. The vmw_vmci kernel module has been presented in an early post.
>
>
> * * *
>
> VMCI Sockets allows virtual machines to communicate with host kernel
> modules and the VMware hypervisors. VMCI Sockets kernel module has
> dependency on VMCI kernel module. User level applications both in
> a virtual machine and on the host can use vmw_vmci through VMCI
> Sockets API which facilitates fast and efficient communication
> between guest virtual machines and their host. A socket
> address family designed to be compatible with UDP and TCP at the
> interface level. Today, VMCI and VMCI Sockets are used by the VMware
> shared folders (HGFS) and various VMware Tools components inside the
> guest for zero-config, network-less access to VMware host services. In
> addition to this, VMware's users are using VMCI Sockets for various
> applications, where network access of the virtual machine is
> restricted or non-existent. Examples of this are VMs communicating
> with device proxies for proprietary hardware running as host
> applications and automated testing of applications running within
> virtual machines.
>
> The VMware VMCI Sockets are similar to other socket types, like
> Berkeley UNIX socket interface. The VMCI sockets module supports
> both connection-oriented stream sockets like TCP, and connectionless
> datagram sockets like UDP. The VSOCK protocol family is defined as
> "AF_VSOCK" and the socket operations split for SOCK_DGRAM and
> SOCK_STREAM.
>
> For additional information about the use of VMCI and in particular
> VMCI Sockets, please refer to the VMCI Socket Programming Guide
> available at https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vmci-sdk/.
>
This should go to netdev as well since it is a new address family.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-06 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-05 18:00 [PATCH 0/6] VSOCK for Linux upstreaming George Zhang
2012-11-05 18:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] VSOCK: vsock protocol implementation George Zhang
2012-11-06 9:10 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-11-06 14:31 ` [Pv-drivers] " Andy King
2012-11-05 18:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] VSOCK: vsock address implementaion George Zhang
2012-11-05 18:01 ` [PATCH 3/6] VSOCK: notification implementation George Zhang
2012-11-05 18:01 ` [PATCH 4/6] VSOCK: statistics implementation George Zhang
2012-11-05 18:01 ` [PATCH 5/6] VSOCK: utility functions George Zhang
2012-11-05 18:01 ` [PATCH 6/6] VSOCK: header and config files George Zhang
2012-11-05 18:09 ` [PATCH 0/6] VSOCK for Linux upstreaming David Miller
2012-11-05 18:10 ` David Miller
2012-11-05 18:24 ` George Zhang
2012-11-05 18:19 ` [Pv-drivers] " Andy King
2012-11-07 6:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-11-08 15:47 ` Andy King
2012-11-15 21:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-11-19 9:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-12-06 15:28 ` Andy King
2012-11-05 18:23 ` Sasha Levin
2012-11-05 18:32 ` George Zhang
2012-11-11 21:59 ` Sasha Levin
2012-11-14 16:42 ` [Pv-drivers] " Andy King
2012-11-06 9:00 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-11-06 9:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-01-08 23:59 George Zhang
2013-01-09 0:21 ` Greg KH
2013-01-09 1:30 ` David Miller
2012-11-21 20:39 George Zhang
2012-11-07 18:45 George Zhang
2012-10-16 0:31 George Zhang
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