"-netdev socket" only supports inet sockets.
It's not a complex task to add support for unix sockets, but
the socket netdev parameters are not defined to manage well unix
socket parameters.
As discussed in:
"socket.c added support for unix domain socket datagram transport"
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1C0E1BC5-904F-46B0-8044-68E43E67BE60@gmail.com/
This series adds support of unix socket type using SocketAddress QAPI structure.
Two new netdev backends, "stream" and "dgram" are added, that are barely a copy of "socket"
backend but they use the SocketAddress QAPI to provide socket parameters.
And then they also implement unix sockets (TCP and UDP).
Some examples of CLI syntax:
for TCP:
-netdev stream,id=socket0,addr.type=inet,addr.host=localhost,addr.port=1234
-netdev stream,id=socket0,server=off,addr.type=inet,addr.host=localhost,addr.port=1234
-netdev dgram,id=socket0,\
local.type=inet,local.host=localhost,local.port=1234,\
remote.type=inet,remote.host=localhost,remote.port=1235
for UNIX:
-netdev stream,id=socket0,addr.type=unix,addr.path=/tmp/qemu0
-netdev stream,id=socket0,server=off,addr.type=unix,addr.path=/tmp/qemu0
-netdev dgram,id=socket0,\
local.type=unix,local.path=/tmp/qemu0,\
remote.type=unix,remote.path=/tmp/qemu1
for FD:
-netdev stream,id=socket0,addr.type=fd,addr.str=4
-netdev stream,id=socket0,server=off,addr.type=fd,addr.str=5
-netdev dgram,id=socket0,local.type=fd,addr.str=4
v2:
- use "stream" and "dgram" rather than "socket-ng,mode=stream"
and ""socket-ng,mode=dgram"
- extract code to bypass qemu_opts_parse_noisily() to
a new patch
- do not ignore EINVAL (Stefano)
- fix "-net" option
CC: Ralph Schmieder <ralph.schmieder@gmail.com>
CC: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
CC: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Laurent Vivier (7):
net: introduce convert_host_port()
qapi: net: introduce a way to bypass qemu_opts_parse_noisily()
qapi: net: add stream and dgram netdevs
net: stream: add unix socket
net: dgram: make dgram_dst generic
net: dgram: move mcast specific code from net_socket_fd_init_dgram()
net: dgram: add unix socket
Stefano Brivio (1):
net: stream: Don't ignore EINVAL on netdev socket connection
hmp-commands.hx | 2 +-
include/qemu/sockets.h | 2 +
net/clients.h | 6 +
net/dgram.c | 706 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
net/hub.c | 2 +
net/meson.build | 2 +
net/net.c | 138 ++++++--
net/stream.c | 516 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
qapi/net.json | 38 ++-
9 files changed, 1379 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 net/dgram.c
create mode 100644 net/stream.c
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2.35.3