Virtio vsock

Fri, Oct 14, 2016

virtio-vsock is a host/guest communications device. It allows applications in the guest and host to communicate. This can be used to implement hypervisor services and guest agents (like qemu-guest-agent or SPICE vdagent).

Unlike virtio-serial, virtio-vsock supports the POSIX Sockets API so existing networking applications require minimal modification. The Sockets API allows N:1 connections so multiple clients can connect to a server simultaneously.

The device has an address assigned automatically so no configuration is required inside the guest.

Sockets are created with the AF_VSOCK address family. The SOCK_STREAM socket type is currently implemented.

NFS over vsock

参考文档

[1] http://qemu-project.org/Features/VirtioVsock [2] http://vmsplice.net/~stefan/stefanha-kvm-forum-2015.pdf