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authorJon Doron <arilou@gmail.com>2020-04-24 15:34:41 +0300
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-06-10 12:09:40 -0400
commit0d71f7082d7aeec8d9767e32dbf7dd86b94b8260 (patch)
treeac154d25d79e082e6143f457006c39211a77efeb /hw/hyperv/Kconfig
parent973b1fbd862c848dde7f710ba1b9ca340235e75f (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>
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diff --git a/hw/hyperv/Kconfig b/hw/hyperv/Kconfig
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@@ -6,3 +6,8 @@ config HYPERV_TESTDEV
bool
default y if TEST_DEVICES
depends on HYPERV
+
+config VMBUS
+ bool
+ default y
+ depends on HYPERV