I could see this being really useful for people who need VM-Sandboxed software, but also need quick and dirty bridges between host/guest. Great contribution!
remijouannet 2 days ago [-]
hi, i’ve recently contributed to libzmq by adding AF_VSOCK. if anyone is playing around with it
touisteur 2 hours ago [-]
Been hoping for some time someone would write it better than my local ugly hack. This immediately useful. Thanks a bunch.
1. shutdown the guest
2. freeze the guest system during backup/snapshot
Just curious about other possible use cases.
donmcronald 3 hours ago [-]
I think it would be useful for backup testing. Lots of VM backup software will boot a restored VM and screenshot the login screen. That’s useless IMO because you could be screenshotting an outdated restore without realizing.
I think you could boot a network disconnected VM and communicate over vsock to assess the guest health. You’d need an agent in the VM, but I think it'd be worth it.
touisteur 1 hours ago [-]
Building micromvs with no network support helps with isolation and (more) kernel surface reduction.
teravor 3 hours ago [-]
some VMMs just straight up translate vsock from the guest to UDS on the host.
http://hintjens.com/blog:125
1. shutdown the guest 2. freeze the guest system during backup/snapshot
Just curious about other possible use cases.
I think you could boot a network disconnected VM and communicate over vsock to assess the guest health. You’d need an agent in the VM, but I think it'd be worth it.