On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 07:47:29 -0700 Dexuan Cui <de...@microsoft.com> 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 <de...@microsoft.com> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
