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Re: [RFC v4 PATCH 00/49] Initial support of multi-process qemu - status
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Elena Ufimtseva |
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Re: [RFC v4 PATCH 00/49] Initial support of multi-process qemu - status update |
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Thu, 2 Jan 2020 08:01:36 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) |
On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 04:33:16PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 07:57:32PM +0000, Felipe Franciosi wrote:
> > > On 16 Dec 2019, at 20:47, Elena Ufimtseva <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:41:16AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > >> Is there a work-in-progress muser patch series you can post to start the
> > >> discussion early? That way we can avoid reviewers like myself asking
> > >> you to make changes after you have invested a lot of time.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Absolutely, that is our plan. At the moment we do not have the patches
> > > ready for the review. We have setup internally a milestone and will be
> > > sending that early version as a tarball after we have it completed.
> > > Would be also a meeting something that could help us to stay on the same
> > > page?
> >
> > Please loop us in if you so set up a meeting.
>
Hi Stefan
And happy New Year to everyone!
> There is a bi-weekly KVM Community Call that we can use for phone
> discussions:
>
>
> https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=dG9iMXRqcXAzN3Y4ZXZwNzRoMHE4a3BqcXNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ
>
Our team would like to join the call on Jan 14 and maybe talk over few things.
Felipe, will you and your team be joining as well?
> Or we can schedule a one-off call at any time :).
>
Awesome! Thank you, we will use for sure this opportunity.
Elena
> Questions I've seen when discussing muser with people have been:
>
> 1. Can unprivileged containers create muser devices? If not, this is a
> blocker for use cases that want to avoid root privileges entirely.
>
> 2. Does muser need to be in the kernel (e.g. slower to develop/ship,
> security reasons)? A similar library could be implemented in
> userspace along the lines of the vhost-user protocol. Although VMMs
> would then need to use a new libmuser-client library instead of
> reusing their VFIO code to access the device.
>
> 3. Should this feature be Linux-only? vhost-user can be implemented on
> non-Linux OSes...
>
> Stefan
Re: [RFC v4 PATCH 00/49] Initial support of multi-process qemu - status update,
Elena Ufimtseva <=