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<p>Hey everyone,</p>
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<p>A couple of weeks ago we merged a trait for DeviceIo. This is very similar to what we have in CrosVM/Firecracker under the name IoBus and serves the same purpose. You can check the commit that introduced the trait for more context [1].<br>
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<p>With this trait merged we can now implement simple legacy devices such as the serial console. I added a PR [2] for this, but it is still very much work in progress. This PR started another conversation regarding where to place the device emulation.</p>
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<p>As far as I know we have two options:</p>
<p>- each device in its own crate/repository</p>
<p>- all commonly used devices in vm-device</p>
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<p>We touched on this topic during the Bucharest rust-vmm meetup as well. Each of these options come with disadvantages. The one that I was mostly concerned about is bloating the vm-device with lots of devices that are not needed by all the VMMs using rust-vmm.
There are ways to work around this problem, so during the meetup we agreed on adding device emulation in vm-device for now. If we get to the point where vm-device becomes unmanageable ( too many devices making the code hard to audit), we can move the device
emulation out of the crate.</p>
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<p>For people that didn't attend the meetup, what do you think about having the device emulation in vm-device?</p>
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<p>Andreea<br>
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<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-device/commit/21910a148a290fcebec98bf11df4410ef35662d1">
https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-device/commit/21910a148a290fcebec98bf11df4410ef35662d1</a></p>
<p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-device/pull/15">https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-device/pull/15</a><br>
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