From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: Host<->guest channel interface advice needed Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:07:01 +0300 Message-ID: <20081126130701.GB8921@ioremap.net> References: <20081126123919.GC3521@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Gleb Natapov Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081126123919.GC3521@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Hi Gleb. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:39:19PM +0200, Gleb Natapov (gleb@redhat.com) wrote: > The interfaces that are being considered are netlink socket (only datagram > semantics, linux specific), new socket family or character device with > different minor number for each channel. Which one better suits for > the purpose? Is there other kind of interface to consider? New socket > family looks like a good choice, but it would be nice to hear other > opinions before starting to work on it. What about X (or whatever else) protocol running over host-guest network device, which are in the kernel already? -- Evgeniy Polyakov