From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] hvsock: introduce Hyper-V VM Sockets feature Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:31:12 -0700 Message-ID: <20150707113112.408b6c5d@urahara> References: <1436194049-27829-1-git-send-email-decui@microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, jasowang@redhat.com, kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com To: Dexuan Cui Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f181.google.com ([209.85.192.181]:35533 "EHLO mail-pd0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933143AbbGGSbE (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 14:31:04 -0400 Received: by pdbci14 with SMTP id ci14so130153471pdb.2 for ; Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:31:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1436194049-27829-1-git-send-email-decui@microsoft.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 07:47:29 -0700 Dexuan Cui wrote: > Hyper-V VM sockets (hvsock) supplies a byte-stream based communication > mechanism between the host and a guest. It's kind of TCP over VMBus, but > the transportation layer (VMBus) is much simpler than IP. With Hyper-V VM > Sockets, applications between the host and a guest can talk with each > other directly by the traditional BSD-style socket APIs. > > Hyper-V VM Sockets is only available on Windows 10 host and later. The > patch implements the necessary support in the guest side by introducing > a new socket address family AF_HYPERV. > > Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui Is there any chance that AF_VSOCK could be used with different transport for VMware and Hyper-V. Better to make guest applications host independent.