On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:46:27AM +0200, Luke Gorrie wrote:
vhost-user is a networking backend based on unix domain sockets instead of tap devices and ioctl(). This makes it possible for userspace networking stacks (vswitches) to provide vhost-networking to guests.
Signed-off-by: Luke Gorrie <luke@snabb.co>
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h index 8f17c74..b5ea2f6 100644 --- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h +++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h @@ -791,6 +791,7 @@ struct _virDomainFSDef { enum virDomainNetType { VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_USER, VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_ETHERNET, + VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_VHOSTUSER, VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_SERVER, VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_CLIENT, VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_MCAST, @@ -877,6 +878,10 @@ struct _virDomainNetDef { char *ipaddr; } ethernet; struct { + char *socket; + char *mode; + } vhostuser; + struct {
So your QEMU command line generation code shows that QEMU is actually allowing any chardev here, not restricted to a UNIX socket. So you should be using a virDomainChrSourceDefPtr chardev; instead of just hardcoding a UNIX socket path + mode.
+ + virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "-chardev", virBufferContentAndReset(&buf1), + NULL); + virCommandAddArgList(cmd, "-netdev", virBufferContentAndReset(&buf2), + NULL);
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