The call is starting now! Sorry, I forgot to send this to qemu-devel. Stefan
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:50 AM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > In today's KVM Community Call we will discuss multi-process QEMU and > related topics (muser and VFIO). > > I wanted to share requirements that I've gathered from our previous > discussions: > * Multiple bus types - new bus types can be added in the future. > * Security - VMM does not trust the device emulation process and vice versa. > * Unprivileged operation - QEMU and the device emulation process can > be launched without root privileges. > * Live migration - saving device state and restoring it. > * Recovery - the device emulation process can be restarted after a > crash without the guest's knowledge. > * vIOMMU - address translation and the ability to expose only a > subset of guest RAM to the device emulation process. > * Portability - works across host OSes > > Following the VFIO API closely seems attractive to avoid reinventing the > wheel. > > Stefan
