Add the vhost-user netdev backend to the command line

The supplied chardev id will be inspected for supported options. Only
a socket backend, with a set path (i.e. a Unix socket) and optionally
the server parameter set, will be allowed. Other options (nowait, telnet)
will make the chardev unusable and the netdev will not be initialised.

Additional checks for validity:
  - requires `-numa node,memdev=..`
  - requires `-device virtio-net-*`

The `vhostforce` option is used to force vhost-net when we deal with
non-MSIX guests.

Signed-off-by: Antonios Motakis <a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Nikolaev <n.nikolaev@virtualopensystems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/net.c b/net/net.c
index 6344160403..3dac29b844 100644
--- a/net/net.c
+++ b/net/net.c
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ const char *host_net_devices[] = {
 #ifdef CONFIG_VDE
     "vde",
 #endif
+    "vhost-user",
     NULL,
 };
 
@@ -802,6 +803,9 @@ static int (* const net_client_init_fun[NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_MAX])(
         [NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_BRIDGE]    = net_init_bridge,
 #endif
         [NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_HUBPORT]   = net_init_hubport,
+#ifdef CONFIG_VHOST_NET_USED
+        [NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_VHOST_USER] = net_init_vhost_user,
+#endif
 };
 
 
@@ -835,6 +839,9 @@ static int net_client_init1(const void *object, int is_netdev, Error **errp)
         case NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_BRIDGE:
 #endif
         case NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_HUBPORT:
+#ifdef CONFIG_VHOST_NET_USED
+        case NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_VHOST_USER:
+#endif
             break;
 
         default: