[Rust-VMM] Rust VMM Crates

[Florescu, Andreea]

Hey everyone,


I was thinking it would be nice to add one more crates to rust-vmm before my Fosdem presentation [1]. Another easy pick would be the virtio bindings, what do you say?


As the community is slowly growing, I think it would also be a good idea to have a process for creating repositories so we can get feedback before publishing them on crates.io. The proposal would be to first create a repository on a personal GitHub profile and open a new issue in the community repository [2] asking for review for the crate. Would that be okay? I can do that for the virtio-bindings crate.


Also, while thinking what crate should we add next, I realized that kvm_wrapper [3] was not the most inspired name of them all (enforcing that we should have some kind of review before publishing them). I also noticed that there are a lot of crates on crates.io that over FFI bindings and are named with the "-bindings" suffix. Because you cannot rename crates on crates.io, I was thinking about creating a new crate with the same content, name it kvm-bindings and mark the kvm_wrapper as an obsolete crate. We can keep the kvm_wrapper repository around and at some point re-purpose it to be a wrapper over KVM ioctls (similar to the kvm crate from crosvm/firecracker, but a bit more generic maybe?).


Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Andreea


[1] https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/vai_rust_vmm/

[2] https://github.com/rust-vmm/community

[3] https://github.com/rust-vmm/kvm_wrapper



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