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Re: [RFC v4 PATCH 00/49] Initial support of multi-process qemu - status
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [RFC v4 PATCH 00/49] Initial support of multi-process qemu - status update |
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Wed, 8 Jan 2020 16:31:12 +0000 |
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 10:55:46PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 3:03 PM Felipe Franciosi <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I even recall highlighting that vhost-user could be moved underneath
> > that later, greatly simplifying lots of other Qemu code.
>
> That would eventually be an option, but vhost-user is already quite
> complicated. We could try to split it up somehow for the non-virtio
> parts.
I hope we can deprecate vhost-user. New out-of-process devices should
just implement VFIO-over-socket with virtio-pci. This way
out-of-process devices are full VIRTIO devices and it's cleaner than
having the vhost-user protocol that exposes a subset of VIRTIO.
Stefan
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Re: [RFC v4 PATCH 00/49] Initial support of multi-process qemu - status update, Elena Ufimtseva, 2020/01/02