Road map of vm-device

[michael2012z]

Hi, everyone. Do we have a road-map/plan about what devices will be supported in this repo?
Maybe we can make a checklist here for future contribution.

[glitzflitz]

+1

[andreeaflorescu]

Hey @michael2012z & @glitzflitz this repository will most likely progress as a place for sharing utilities needed by all devices, so it is a bit hard to have a road map for it. If you are interested in the devices that we want to emulate in rust-vmm, we can start with vm-superio which provides emulation for legacy devices. Then, we also will want to add device emulation in vm-virtio. Are you interested in these directions?

[glitzflitz]

@andreeaflorescu That sounds good. Currently I'm working towards implementing vhost-user-scsi device. Is there any preference for how devices are implemented(virtio vs vhost-user protocol)?

[jiangliu]

@andreeaflorescu That sounds good. Currently I'm working towards implementing vhost-user-scsi device. Is there any preference for how devices are implemented(virtio vs vhost-user protocol)?

For vhost-user-scsi, maybe a dedicated crate should be better. It will depends on vhost/virtio etc, it's a little heavy.

[glitzflitz]

For vhost-user-scsi, maybe a dedicated crate should be better. It will depends on vhost/virtio etc, it's a little heavy.

Dedicated crate should be doable like vhost-user-fs.

[jiangliu]

For vhost-user-scsi, maybe a dedicated crate should be better. It will depends on vhost/virtio etc, it's a little heavy.

Dedicated crate should be doable like vhost-user-fs.

exactly, there's helpers such as vhost-user-backend etc 👍

[andreeaflorescu]

@glitzflitz can you open an issue in the community repository for creating the vhost-user-scsi? There are some steps here: https://github.com/rust-vmm/community#adding-a-new-virtualization-component.

[glitzflitz]

@glitzflitz can you open an issue in the community repository for creating the vhost-user-scsi? There are some steps here: https://github.com/rust-vmm/community#adding-a-new-virtualization-component.

I'm a beginner so it takes quite a while to implement some things 😅. I'll open a issue once I have some bare minimal code running