Re: RFC: New device for zero-copy VM memory access

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2019 at 14:26, <address@hidden> wrote:
> As the author of Looking Glass, I also have to consider the maintenance
> and the complexity of implementing the vhost protocol into the project.
> At this time a complete Porthole client can be implemented in 150 lines
> of C without external dependencies, and most of that is boilerplate
> socket code. This IMO is a major factor in deciding to avoid vhost-user.

This is essentially a proposal that we should make our project and
code more complicated so that your project and code can be simpler.
I hope you can see why this isn't necessarily an argument that will hold
very much weight for us :-)

thanks
-- PMM