Re: [Virtio-fs] (no subject)

[Viresh Kumar]

On 13-10-23, 20:02, Hanna Czenczek wrote:
> On 10.10.23 16:35, Alex Bennée wrote:
> > I was going to say there is also the rust-vmm vhost-user-master crates
> > which we've imported:
> > 
> >    https://github.com/vireshk/vhost
> > 
> > for the Xen Vhost Frontend:
> > 
> >    https://github.com/vireshk/xen-vhost-frontend
> > 
> > but I can't actually see any handling for GET/SET_STATUS at all which
> > makes me wonder how we actually work. Viresh?
> 
> As far as I know the only back-end implementation of F_STATUS is in DPDK. 
> As I said, if anyone else implemented it right now, that would be dangerous,
> because qemu doesn’t adhere to the virtio protocol when it comes to the
> status byte.

Yeah, none of the Rust based Virtio backends enable `STATUS` in
`VhostUserProtocolFeatures` and so these messages are never exchanged.

The generic Rust code for the backends, doesn't even implement them.
Not sure if they should or not.

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viresh