[Rust-VMM] Crate for vhost-user device backend?
Dr. David Alan Gilbert
dgilbert at redhat.com
Thu Jan 17 11:30:18 UTC 2019
* Jiang Liu (liuj97 at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>
> > On Jan 17, 2019, at 6:58 PM, Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:56 PM Jiang Liu <liuj97 at gmail.com <mailto:liuj97 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> We are working on a vhostuser-rs crate, and planned to posted it for RFC later.
> >
> > Great news! Looking forward for it! Feel free to share WIP if you want help.
> >
> >>
> >>> On Jan 17, 2019, at 6:52 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> Has anyone implemented a vhost-user device backend in Rust?
> >>>
> >>> QEMU's libvhost-user and DPDK's librte_vhost are C implementations that
> >>> provide a device backend API. They allow you to implement
> >>> vhost-user-net, vhost-user-blk, and vhost-user-scsi devices as a
> >>> separate process from the main emulator.
> We are working on this direction, but enhancements to firecracker/rust-vmm are need to support
> vhostuser. For example we need to support memfd based memory slot management. It’s really
> great if we could cooperate on it.
Are you working on it for the hypervisor side, or the device side, or
both?
Dave
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