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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: namespaced vsock
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 14:22:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240605142252.466c3af4@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <myowlo6xpjrhbawt6sptwcqktm34zbfnsxzyo5eahcbspitwzq@ypssm5pe6q7m>

On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 18:00:25 +0200 Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 07:57:44AM GMT, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> I found you patches from 2020 adding netns support to vsock.
>> I got an internal ping from someone trying to run VMMs inside
>> containers. Any plans on pushing that work forward? Is there
>> a reason you stopped, or just EBUSY?
> 
> IIRC nothing too difficult to solve, but as you guessed more EBUSY ;-)
> 
> Maybe the more laborious one is somehow exporting a netdev interface 
> into the guest to assign the device to a netns. But I hadn't tried to 
> see if that was feasible yet. I have some notes here:
> https://gitlab.com/vsock/vsock/-/issues/2
> 
> I've been planning to take it up several times but haven't found time 
> for now, if there's anyone interested I'm happy to share information and 
> help with review and feedback. Otherwise I try to allocate some time, 
> but I can't promise anything in the short term.

Makes sense, thanks for the info!

> Do you have time or anyone interested in continuing the work?

Depending on the priority compared to other work, as usual :(

There was a small chance you'd say "I'm planning to do it next month"
and I wouldn't have to worry at all, so I thought I'd ask ;)

  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-05 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-05 14:57 namespaced vsock Jakub Kicinski
2024-06-05 16:00 ` Stefano Garzarella
2024-06-05 21:22   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2024-06-06 14:05     ` Stefano Garzarella

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