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From: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: Using virtio for inter-VM communication
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:15:17 +0200
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On 10/06/2014 18:48, Henning Schild wrote:> Hi,
 > In a first prototype i implemented a ivshmem[2] device for the
 > hypervisor. That way we can share memory between virtual machines.
 > Ivshmem is nice and simple but does not seem to be used anymore.
 > And it
 > does not define higher level devices, like a console.

FYI, ivhsmem is used here:
   http://dpdk.org/browse/memnic/tree/

http://dpdk.org/browse/memnic/tree/pmd/pmd_memnic.c#n449

There are some few other references too, if needed.

Best regards,
   Vincent