In order to identify better the problem whenever an existing TAP is
provided, this patch enhances the error returned for an easier
diagnosis of the problem.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Add support to allow VMMs to open the same tap device many times, it will
create multiple file descriptors meanwhile.
Signed-off-by: Cathy Zhang <cathy.zhang@intel.com>
Create vhost-user-net backend with Tap interface, to offload network
transaction from cloud-hypervisor. The goal is to provide flexibility
about the backend being in use, but also more security as it will allow
users to isolate the backend with different security profiles since it
will run as a dedicated process on the host.
Signed-off-by: Cathy Zhang <cathy.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Updated clippy does not like the declaration of a "to_string()" function
and instead requires fmt::Display to be implemented.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
The newly added virtio-net implementation needs to interact with TAP
interfaces and MAC addresses, which is the reason why it is easier
to rely on existing packages net_util and net_gen.
One more thing, both net_util and net_gen could be trimmed down,
based on using only the things we need from cloud-hypervisor.
Both net_util, net_gen and sys_util are based on Firecracker
commit d4a89cdc0bd2867f821e3678328dabad6dd8b767.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
