Sorry for not respoding there. When I started researching and working on this qemu-devel was the only mailing list where I actually got support (answers) for my questions.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 02:03:59PM +0300, Catalin Vasile wrote: > > I am working on a virtio-crypto with vhost backend. > > You didn't respond in the "[GSoC] project proposal" thread where I > explained why vhost isn't appropriate for this device: > > My suggestion is to work on the gnutls driver. Then, if you have time > left, get cryptodev upstream (it can be part of your GSoC project > plan). > > That approach is more beneficial in the long run. It will allow other > applications to use the Crypto API too. > > vhost is good for exploiting kernel-only functionality (usually due to > security/reliability boundaries). In this case the only reason for > vhost is that the userspace API isn't ready yet. Use the opportunity > to contribute to that effort instead of working around it. > > Stefan >
