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This commit introduces a vhost-user-vsock device that enables communicaton between an application running in the guest i.e inside a VM and an application running on the host i.e outside the VM. The device exposes unix sockets to which the VMM and host-side applications connect to. Applications in the guest communicate over VM sockets. Applicaitons on the host connect to the unix socket i.e communicate over AF_UNIX sockets. Signed-off-by: Harshavardhan Unnibhavi <harshanavkis@gmail.com> [sgarzare: rebased, updated Cargo.lock, updated clap version to avoid build issues, and fixed clap issues with the new version] Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
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# vhost-device
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## Design
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This repository hosts various 'vhost-user' device backends in their own crates.
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See their individual README.md files for specific information about those
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crates.
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Here is the list of device backends that we support:
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- [GPIO](https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device/blob/main/gpio/README.md)
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- [I2C](https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device/blob/main/i2c/README.md)
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- [RNG](https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device/blob/main/rng/README.md)
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- [VSOCK](https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device/blob/main/vsock/README.md)
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## Testing and Code Coverage
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Like the wider rust-vmm project we expect new features to come with
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comprehensive code coverage. However as a multi-binary repository
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there are cases where avoiding a drop in coverage can be hard and an
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exception to the approach is allowable. These are:
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* adding a new binary target (aim at least 60% overall coverage)
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* expanding the main function (a small drop is acceptable)
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However any new feature added to an existing binary should not cause a
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drop in coverage. The general aim should be to always improve
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coverage.
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## Separation of Concerns
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The binaries built by this repository can be run with any VMM which
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can act as a vhost-user frontend. Typically they have been tested with
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[QEMU](https://www.qemu.org) although the rust-vmm project does
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provide a [vhost-user
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frontend](https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost/tree/main/src/vhost_user)
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crate for rust based VMMs.
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While it's possible to implement all parts of the backend inside the
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vhost-device workspace consideration should be given to separating the
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VirtQueue handling and response logic to a crate in [vm-virtio
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devices](https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-virtio/tree/main/crates/devices).
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This way a monolithic rust-vmm VMM implementation can reuse the core
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logic to service the virtio requests directly in the application.
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