Aaron Rolett wrote: > Hi Cam, > Are you talking about the VMCI Sockets interface from within the > kernel on linux? If so ... I don't think anyone has tried this yet ... > but I *think* it should mostly work. One thing that might need a little > work is registering the dynamic address family value since that is > currently done through /dev/vsock in userspace. This is something I'd > like to try out when I have a chance.
Yup, within Linux. > With regards to VMCI Sockets on windows in kernel mode ... we > don't currently have support for this. > > Out of curiosity ... what are you trying use VMCI Sockets for? I'm actually interested in the shared memory VMCI interface, not in the socket/datagram one at this point. Because of this I am using WS 6.0.4 due to shared memory's deprecation in 6.5 (and newer open-vm-tools). To answer your question, what I would like to do is use shared memory as a file cache between VMs on the same host that would all be accessing a remote file system. In particular I'm working with Samba. I was using fusesmb so I could work at user level, but fusesmb is flaky and doesn't seem to be an active project in terms of development. So, I'm thinking of using the CIFS kernel module to work on my implementation. Cam > > Aaron > On Dec 3, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Cam Macdonell wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I was curious if it is possible to use VMCI from the kernel? I have a >> kernel module that I would like to have communicate with another VM. >> While some may brand this as insane. I was curious if it is possible. >> >> Thanks, >> Cam >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> open-vm-tools-devel mailing list >> open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
