I'd like to make a feature request to explicitly add support for AF_VSOCK sockets, as the form of vsock://CID:PORT.
VSOCK is used to implement IPC between VMs and containers without extra network configurations in Linux systems. For instance, VSOCK can replace the use of UNIX domain socket bind-mounts between containers and the host.
A particular usage scenarios is Docker Desktop for Mac. With its recent 4.15 release (December 2022), it has changed the filesystem sharing driver to virtiofs which does not support bind-mounting UNIX sockets crossing the macOS filesystem and the QEMU VM's filesystem.
A good workaround of this situation is to use VSOCK, which is well-supproted by the QEMU's virtio stack and many other Linux hypervisors.
This is a relatively new kernel feature, though this originates from VMCI which zeromq already has some integration with. I think the actual implementation should not be much difficult.
bluca
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1 year ago
Issue description
I'd like to make a feature request to explicitly add support for
AF_VSOCKsockets, as the form ofvsock://CID:PORT.VSOCK is used to implement IPC between VMs and containers without extra network configurations in Linux systems. For instance, VSOCK can replace the use of UNIX domain socket bind-mounts between containers and the host.
A particular usage scenarios is Docker Desktop for Mac. With its recent 4.15 release (December 2022), it has changed the filesystem sharing driver to virtiofs which does not support bind-mounting UNIX sockets crossing the macOS filesystem and the QEMU VM's filesystem.
A good workaround of this situation is to use VSOCK, which is well-supproted by the QEMU's virtio stack and many other Linux hypervisors.
This is a relatively new kernel feature, though this originates from VMCI which zeromq already has some integration with. I think the actual implementation should not be much difficult.
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