Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] NFS: add AF_VSOCK support to NFS client

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On 20 October 2016 at 16:36, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 02:42:17AM +0200, Cedric Blancher wrote:
>> So basically you're creating a new (Red Hat) Linux-only wormhole which
>> bypasses all network security between VM host and guest and needs
>> extra work&thought&tool support (wireshark, valgrind, ...) to handle,
>> trace, debug, monitor and secure?
>
> vsock is not Linux-only and not Red Hat-only.

This is clearly Red Hat only. Debian and Ubuntu folks already have
rejected this out of security concerns, so why are you pressing this?
Where is support for other operating systems, like Windows, FreeBSD or
Solaris/Illumos?

Ced
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