On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:32:16 +
John Johnson wrote:
> > On Aug 17, 2021, at 7:04 PM, Alex Williamson
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > The address/size paradigm falls into the same issues as the vfio kernel
> > interface where we can't map or unmap the entire 64-bit address space,
> > ie. size is lim
> On Aug 17, 2021, at 7:04 PM, Alex Williamson
> wrote:
>
>
> The address/size paradigm falls into the same issues as the vfio kernel
> interface where we can't map or unmap the entire 64-bit address space,
> ie. size is limited to 2^64 - 1. The kernel interface also requires
> PAGE_SIZE gra
On 18. Aug 2021, at 01:04, Alex Williamson
mailto:alex.william...@redhat.com>> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 09:42:34 -0700
Elena Ufimtseva mailto:elena.ufimts...@oracle.com>>
wrote:
+Authentication
+--
+
+For ``AF_UNIX``, we rely on OS mandatory access controls on the socket files,
+
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 09:42:34 -0700
Elena Ufimtseva wrote:
> +Authentication
> +--
> +
> +For ``AF_UNIX``, we rely on OS mandatory access controls on the socket files,
> +therefore it is up to the management layer to set up the socket as required.
> +Socket types than span guests or hos
From: Thanos Makatos
This patch introduces the vfio-user protocol specification (formerly
known as VFIO-over-socket), which is designed to allow devices to be
emulated outside QEMU, in a separate process. vfio-user reuses the
existing VFIO defines, structs and concepts.
This patch is sourced fro
