Let vwifi support VirtIO

sysprog21 / vwifi

A virtual wireless device driver for Linux

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Let vwifi support VirtIO #33

Open dungru opened 1 year ago

dungru commented 1 year ago

I finally figured out what we could do in next step. The inspiration from the following slides Virtual WiFi: Bring Virtualization from Wired to Wireless

Our target is to ensure that the real-chip driver can run on the guest OS and that the vwifi driver can support as a backend driver which is running on the host Linux KVM or QEMU

However, the target is too big. What can we do as the first step, or what is a simpler scenario could advise?

rickywu0421 commented 1 year ago

I have figured out a rather simple scenario here: https://hackmd.io/@rickywu0421/vwifi_virtio. Please take a look.

rickywu0421 commented 1 year ago

Please see #PR45, and note that I haven't modified the https://hackmd.io/@rickywu0421/vwifi_virtio for a while, so please do not look into it :)

jserv commented 1 year ago

Action items:

Make virtio support compile-time configurable
Refine top-level documentation by moving some setup/descriptions into automated scripts.

jserv commented 1 month ago

Raizo62/vwifi simulates Wi-Fi (802.11) between Linux Virtual Machines.

It can be used in Hypervisors (GNS3, QEmu, Virtualbox, VMware, Hyper-V, ...)
The Wireless emulator uses the mac80211_hwsim linux driver
Implements the packet loss simulation based on distance
Emulates the node mobility in GNS3