[Libguestfs] FYI: nbdkit / libnbd --vsock now has a regression test

Stefano Garzarella sgarzare at redhat.com
Mon Feb 10 13:05:27 UTC 2020


On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:45:47PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Since Linux >= 5.6 supports vsock in loopback mode, I was able to add
> a regression test for this feature to nbdkit / libnbd, and I can
> report that it appears to work fine.
> 
> https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/5e4745641bb4676f607fdb3f8750dbf6e9516877
> 

I'm happy that it works and it is useful :-)
Thanks again for the suggestion!

Just a note, Linux >= 5.6 supports a new special cid (VMADDR_CID_LOCAL = 1)
to use the loopback mode in any condition (host, guest, nested guest).

Cheers,
Stefano





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