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Please vote Yes if you agree with all of the following. If you disagree, please vote No. If you don't have an opinion, please vote Abstain. I move that: The TC agrees to resolve the following specification issue: Issue #27: vsock: add vsock device -------------------------------------- The virtio vsock device is a zero-configuration socket communications device. It is designed as a guesthost management channel suitable for communicating with guest agents. vsock is designed with the sockets API in mind and the driver is typically implemented as an address family (at the same level as AF_INET). Applications written for the sockets API can be ported with minimal changes (similar amount of effort as adding IPv6 support to an IPv4 application). Unlike the existing console device, which is also used for guesthost communication, multiple clients can connect to a server at the same time over vsock. This limitation requires console-based users to arbitrate access through a single client. In vsock they can connect directly and do not have to synchronize with each other. Unlike network devices, no configuration is necessary because the device comes with its address in the configuration space. The vsock device was prototyped by Gerd Hoffmann and Asias He. I picked the code and design up from them. -------------------------------------- The TC accepts the following proposed changes to the specification: -------------------------------------- https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/201811/msg00145.html -------------------------------------- The TC agrees to include the above change(s) in specification version(s) "virtio-v1.1-cs01", and future versions of the specification. -------------------------------------- Reminder: A Voting Member must be active in a TC to maintain voting rights. As the Virtio TC has adopted a standing rule to conduct business only by electronic ballot, without Meetings, a Voting Member who fails to cast a ballot in two consecutive Work Product Ballots loses his or her voting rights at the close of the second ballot missed. --------------------------------------
