Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:31:12 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 6/7] hvsock: introduce Hyper-V VM Sockets feature |
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On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 07:47:29 -0700 Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hyper-V VM sockets (hvsock) supplies a byte-stream based communication > mechanism between the host and a guest. It's kind of TCP over VMBus, but > the transportation layer (VMBus) is much simpler than IP. With Hyper-V VM > Sockets, applications between the host and a guest can talk with each > other directly by the traditional BSD-style socket APIs. > > Hyper-V VM Sockets is only available on Windows 10 host and later. The > patch implements the necessary support in the guest side by introducing > a new socket address family AF_HYPERV. > > Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Is there any chance that AF_VSOCK could be used with different transport for VMware and Hyper-V. Better to make guest applications host independent.
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