On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 04:33:16PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 07:57:32PM +0000, Felipe Franciosi wrote: > > > On 16 Dec 2019, at 20:47, Elena Ufimtseva <elena.ufimts...@oracle.com> > > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:41:16AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > >> Is there a work-in-progress muser patch series you can post to start the > > >> discussion early? That way we can avoid reviewers like myself asking > > >> you to make changes after you have invested a lot of time. > > >> > > > > > > Absolutely, that is our plan. At the moment we do not have the patches > > > ready for the review. We have setup internally a milestone and will be > > > sending that early version as a tarball after we have it completed. > > > Would be also a meeting something that could help us to stay on the same > > > page? > > > > Please loop us in if you so set up a meeting. >
Hi Stefan And happy New Year to everyone! > There is a bi-weekly KVM Community Call that we can use for phone > discussions: > > > https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=dG9iMXRqcXAzN3Y4ZXZwNzRoMHE4a3BqcXNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ > Our team would like to join the call on Jan 14 and maybe talk over few things. Felipe, will you and your team be joining as well? > Or we can schedule a one-off call at any time :). > Awesome! Thank you, we will use for sure this opportunity. Elena > Questions I've seen when discussing muser with people have been: > > 1. Can unprivileged containers create muser devices? If not, this is a > blocker for use cases that want to avoid root privileges entirely. > > 2. Does muser need to be in the kernel (e.g. slower to develop/ship, > security reasons)? A similar library could be implemented in > userspace along the lines of the vhost-user protocol. Although VMMs > would then need to use a new libmuser-client library instead of > reusing their VFIO code to access the device. > > 3. Should this feature be Linux-only? vhost-user can be implemented on > non-Linux OSes... > > Stefan
