From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Nikos Dragazis <ndragazis@arrikto.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: "John G. Johnson" <john.g.johnson@oracle.com>,
"Andra-Irina Paraschiv" <andraprs@amazon.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Maxime Coquelin" <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>,
"Alexander Graf" <graf@amazon.com>,
"Thanos Makatos" <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: Inter-VM device emulation (call on Mon 20th July 2020)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 12:23:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200715112342.GD18817@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86d42090-f042-06a1-efba-d46d449df280@arrikto.com>
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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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next parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-15 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <86d42090-f042-06a1-efba-d46d449df280@arrikto.com>
2020-07-15 11:23 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2020-07-15 11:28 ` Inter-VM device emulation (call on Mon 20th July 2020) Jan Kiszka
2020-07-15 15:38 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-15 16:44 ` Alex Bennée
2020-07-17 8:58 ` Nikos Dragazis
2020-07-17 17:10 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-15 16:20 ` Thanos Makatos
2020-07-20 17:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-21 10:49 ` Alex Bennée
2020-07-21 19:08 ` Jan Kiszka
2020-07-27 10:14 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-27 10:30 ` Alex Bennée
2020-07-27 11:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-07-27 12:22 ` Alex Bennée
2020-07-27 11:52 ` Jean-Philippe Brucker
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