On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:37:50AM -0800, acking@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Andy King <acking@xxxxxxxxxx> > > VM Sockets allows communication between virtual machines and the hypervisor. > User level applications both in a virtual machine and on the host can use the > VM 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, is provided. > > Today, VM Sockets is used by 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 VM 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 VM Sockets are similar to other socket types, like Berkeley UNIX > socket interface. The VM Sockets module supports both connection-oriented > stream sockets like TCP, and connectionless datagram sockets like UDP. The VM > Sockets 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 VM Sockets, please refer to the VM > Sockets Programming Guide available at: > > https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vmci-sdk/ > > Signed-off-by: George Zhang <georgezhang@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Andy king <acking@xxxxxxxxxx> > index 0000000..95e2568 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig > @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ > +# > +# Vsock protocol > +# > + > +config VMWARE_VSOCK > + tristate "Virtual Socket protocol" > + depends on VMWARE_VMCI What is CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI? I don't find that in any Kconfig in the tree? I''m still looking over the rest, but I get build issues if I just remove the dependency. Neil _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
