On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:00:38 -0800 George Zhang <georgezhang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * * * > This series of VSOCK linux upstreaming patches include latest udpate from > VMware. > > Summary of changes: > - Add include/linux/socket.h for AF_VSOCK. > - Cleanup some comments. > - Cleanup makefiles. > > > > * * * > > In an effort to improve the out-of-the-box experience with Linux > kernels for VMware users, VMware is working on readying the Virtual > Machine Communication Interface (vmw_vmci) and VMCI Sockets (VSOCK) > (vmw_vsock) kernel modules for inclusion in the Linux kernel. The > purpose of this post is to acquire feedback on the vmw_vsock kernel > module. The vmw_vmci kernel module has been presented in an early post. > > > * * * > > VMCI Sockets allows virtual machines to communicate with host kernel > modules and the VMware hypervisors. VMCI Sockets kernel module has > dependency on VMCI kernel module. User level applications both in > a virtual machine and on the host can use vmw_vmci through VMCI > Sockets API which facilitates fast and efficient communication > between guest virtual machines and their host. A socket > address family designed to be compatible with UDP and TCP at the > interface level. Today, VMCI and VMCI Sockets are used by the VMware > shared folders (HGFS) and various VMware Tools components inside the > guest for zero-config, network-less access to VMware host services. In > addition to this, VMware's users are using VMCI Sockets for various > applications, where network access of the virtual machine is > restricted or non-existent. Examples of this are VMs communicating > with device proxies for proprietary hardware running as host > applications and automated testing of applications running within > virtual machines. > > The VMware VMCI Sockets are similar to other socket types, like > Berkeley UNIX socket interface. The VMCI sockets module supports > both connection-oriented stream sockets like TCP, and connectionless > datagram sockets like UDP. The VSOCK protocol family is defined as > "AF_VSOCK" and the socket operations split for SOCK_DGRAM and > SOCK_STREAM. > > For additional information about the use of VMCI and in particular > VMCI Sockets, please refer to the VMCI Socket Programming Guide > available at https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vmci-sdk/. > This should go to netdev as well since it is a new address family. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
