Re: [Qemu-devel] vhost/virtio migration planning

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 02:03:59PM +0300, Catalin Vasile wrote:
> I am working on a virtio-crypto with vhost backend.

You didn't respond in the "[GSoC] project proposal" thread where I
explained why vhost isn't appropriate for this device:

  My suggestion is to work on the gnutls driver.  Then, if you have time
  left, get cryptodev upstream (it can be part of your GSoC project
  plan).

  That approach is more beneficial in the long run.  It will allow other
  applications to use the Crypto API too.

  vhost is good for exploiting kernel-only functionality (usually due to
  security/reliability boundaries).  In this case the only reason for
  vhost is that the userspace API isn't ready yet.  Use the opportunity
  to contribute to that effort instead of working around it.

Stefan

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