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author | Jon Doron <arilou@gmail.com> | 2020-04-24 15:34:41 +0300 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2020-06-10 12:09:40 -0400 |
commit | 0d71f7082d7aeec8d9767e32dbf7dd86b94b8260 (patch) | |
tree | ac154d25d79e082e6143f457006c39211a77efeb /hw/hyperv/Kconfig | |
parent | 973b1fbd862c848dde7f710ba1b9ca340235e75f (diff) |
vmbus: vmbus implementation
Add the VMBus infrastructure -- bus, devices, root bridge, vmbus state
machine, vmbus channel interactions, etc.
VMBus is a collection of technologies. At its lowest layer, it's a message
passing and signaling mechanism, allowing efficient passing of messages to and
from guest VMs. A layer higher, it's a mechanism for defining channels of
communication, where each channel is tagged with a type (which implies a
protocol) and a instance ID. A layer higher than that, it's a bus driver,
serving as the basis of device enumeration within a VM, where a channel can
optionally be exposed as a paravirtual device. When a server-side (paravirtual
back-end) component wishes to offer a channel to a guest VM, it does so by
specifying a channel type, a mode, and an instance ID. VMBus then exposes this
in the guest.
More information about VMBus can be found in the file
vmbuskernelmodeclientlibapi.h in Microsoft's WDK.
TODO:
- split into smaller palatable pieces
- more comments
- check and handle corner cases
Kudos to Evgeny Yakovlev (formerly eyakovlev@virtuozzo.com) and Andrey
Smetatin (formerly asmetanin@virtuozzo.com) for research and
prototyping.
Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Doron <arilou@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20200424123444.3481728-4-arilou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/hyperv/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | hw/hyperv/Kconfig | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hw/hyperv/Kconfig b/hw/hyperv/Kconfig index a1fa8ff9be..3fbfe41c9e 100644 --- a/hw/hyperv/Kconfig +++ b/hw/hyperv/Kconfig @@ -6,3 +6,8 @@ config HYPERV_TESTDEV bool default y if TEST_DEVICES depends on HYPERV + +config VMBUS + bool + default y + depends on HYPERV |