Re: [PATCHv5 3/3] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Sep 15 2009 - 16:43:20 EST


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:08:23PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> No, what I mean is how do you surface multiple ethernet and consoles to
> the guests? For Ira's case, I think he needs at minimum at least one of
> each, and he mentioned possibly having two unique ethernets at one point.
>
> His slave boards surface themselves as PCI devices to the x86
> host. So how do you use that to make multiple vhost-based devices (say
> two virtio-nets, and a virtio-console) communicate across the transport?
>
> There are multiple ways to do this, but what I am saying is that
> whatever is conceived will start to look eerily like a vbus-connector,
> since this is one of its primary purposes ;)

Can't all this be in userspace?
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