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authorLaurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>2024-11-22 17:43:34 +0100
committerStefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>2024-11-27 16:47:32 +0100
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vhost-user: add vhost-user
add virtio and vhost-user functions to connect with QEMU. $ ./passt --vhost-user and # qemu-system-x86_64 ... -m 4G \ -object memory-backend-memfd,id=memfd0,share=on,size=4G \ -numa node,memdev=memfd0 \ -chardev socket,id=chr0,path=/tmp/passt_1.socket \ -netdev vhost-user,id=netdev0,chardev=chr0 \ -device virtio-net,mac=9a:2b:2c:2d:2e:2f,netdev=netdev0 \ ... Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> [sbrivio: as suggested by lvivier, include <netinet/if_ether.h> before including <linux/if_ether.h> as C libraries such as musl __UAPI_DEF_ETHHDR in <netinet/if_ether.h> if they already have a definition of struct ethhdr] Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/passt.1 b/passt.1
index 15c8338..b2896a2 100644
--- a/passt.1
+++ b/passt.1
@@ -404,13 +404,21 @@ interface address are configured on a given host interface.
.SS \fBpasst\fR-only options
.TP
-.BR \-s ", " \-\-socket " " \fIpath
+.BR \-s ", " \-\-socket-path ", " \-\-socket " " \fIpath
Path for UNIX domain socket used by \fBqemu\fR(1) or \fBqrap\fR(1) to connect to
\fBpasst\fR.
Default is to probe a free socket, not accepting connections, starting from
\fI/tmp/passt_1.socket\fR to \fI/tmp/passt_64.socket\fR.
.TP
+.BR \-\-vhost-user
+Enable vhost-user. The vhost-user command socket is provided by \fB--socket\fR.
+
+.TP
+.BR \-\-print-capabilities
+Print back-end capabilities in JSON format, only meaningful for vhost-user mode.
+
+.TP
.BR \-F ", " \-\-fd " " \fIFD
Pass a pre-opened, connected socket to \fBpasst\fR. Usually the socket is opened
in the parent process and \fBpasst\fR inherits it when run as a child. This