Add new vhost-user netdev backend

Add a new QEMU netdev backend that is intended to invoke vhost_net with the
vhost-user backend. It uses an Unix socket chardev to establish a
communication with the 'slave' (client and server mode supported).

At runtime the netdev will handle OPEN/CLOSE events from the chardev. Upon
disconnection it will set link_down accordingly and notify virtio-net; the
virtio-net interface will go down.

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>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/net/vhost-user.h b/include/net/vhost-user.h
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/include/net/vhost-user.h
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+/*
+ * vhost-user.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Virtual Open Systems Sarl.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef VHOST_USER_H_
+#define VHOST_USER_H_
+
+struct vhost_net;
+struct vhost_net *vhost_user_get_vhost_net(NetClientState *nc);
+
+#endif /* VHOST_USER_H_ */