Re: [PATCH 0/4] nfs-utils mount: add AF_VSOCK support

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

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On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:37:58AM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/07/2016 06:01 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > The AF_VSOCK address family allows virtual machines to communicate with the
> > hypervisor using a zero-configuration transport.  Both KVM and VMware
> > hypervisors support AF_VSOCK and it was introduced in Linux 3.9.
> > 
> > This patch series adds AF_VSOCK support to mount.nfs(8) and works together with
> > the kernel NFS client patches that I am also posting to
> > linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org.
> > 
> > NFS over AF_VSOCK is useful for file system sharing between a virtual machine
> > and the host.  Due to the zero-configuration nature of AF_VSOCK this is more
> > transparent to the user and more robust than asking the user to set up NFS over
> > TCP/IP.
> > 
> > A file system from the host (hypervisor) can be mounted inside a virtual
> > machine over AF_VSOCK like this:
> > 
> >   (guest)# mount.nfs 2:/export /mnt -v -o clientaddr=3,proto=vsock
> > 
> > The VM's cid (address) is 3 and the hypervisor is 2.
> > 
> > For testing it's easiest to tunnel AF_VSOCK to the AF_INET nfsd on the host.
> > The following utility can do this:
> > https://github.com/stefanha/linux/blob/vsock-extras/nc-vsock.c
> > 
> >   (host)# nc-vsock -l 2049 -t 127.0.0.1 2049
> > 
> > I will post nfsd patches for both the kernel and nfs-utils once they are
> > complete.
> > 
> > Alternatively you can use nfs-ganesha's AF_VSOCK support to run a native
> > AF_VSOCK server.
> > 
> > Note that this patch series relies on the AF_VSOCK getaddrinfo(3) support I
> > recently posted to glibc:
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/676589/
> > 
> > Stefan Hajnoczi (4):
> >   mount: don't use IPPROTO_UDP for address resolution
> >   mount: present AF_VSOCK addresses
> >   mount: accept AF_VSOCK in nfs_verify_family()
> >   getport: recognize "vsock" netid
> > 
> >  support/nfs/getport.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
> >  utils/mount/network.c | 10 +++++++++-
> >  utils/mount/stropts.c |  4 +---
> >  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> My apologies... I did lose track of these... 
> 
> Where the kernel patches for the AF_VSOCK support 
> accepted??

No, they haven't been merged because the discussion was slow (largely my
fault).  I'll send out a new round of kernel and nfs-utils patches with
the latest code soon.

Stefan

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