RE: [PATCH] vsock: only load vmci transport on VMware hypervisor by default

[Dexuan Cui]

> From: Dexuan Cui
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 21:21
> > ...
> > ...
> > The only problem here would be the potential for a guest and a host app
> to
> > have a conflict wrt port numbers, even though they would be able to
> > operate fine, if restricted to their appropriate transport.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jorgen
> 
> Hi Jorgen, Stefan,
> Thank you for the detailed analysis!
> You have a much better understanding than me about the complex
> scenarios. Can you please work out a patch? :-)

Hi Jorgen, Stefan,
May I know your plan for this? 
 
> IMO Linux driver of Hyper-V sockets is the simplest case, as we only have
> the "to host" option (the host side driver of Hyper-V sockets runs on
> Windows kernel and I don't think the other hypervisors emulate
> the full Hyper-V VMBus 4.0, which is required to support Hyper-V sockets).
> 
> -- Dexuan

Thanks,
-- Dexuan