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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 14/14] Add virtio-gpu vhost-user backend
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On Sa, 2016-06-04 at 23:33 +0200, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>=20
> Add to virtio-gpu devices a "vhost-user" property. When set, the
> associated vhost-user backend is used to handle the virtio rings.
>=20
> For now, a socketpair is created for the backend to share the rendering
> results with qemu via a simple VHOST_GPU protocol.

Can you give a design overview?

On a first look this seems to not share much code with virtio-gpu
either, so I guess it makes sense to put this into a separate
virtio-gpu-vhost device too.

cheers,
  Gerd