Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost/virtio migration planning

2015-04-21 Thread Catalin Vasile
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 wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 02:03:59PM +0300, Catalin Vasile wrote: >

Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost/virtio migration planning

2015-04-21 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
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, i

[Qemu-devel] vhost/virtio migration planning

2015-04-17 Thread Catalin Vasile
I am working on a virtio-crypto with vhost backend. This functionality should expose a virtual cryptographic device to the guest which would send crypto jobs to the host. One problem I am facing is where to store session data (such as keys, IVs, etc.). For performance improvements, I would be ideal