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libvfio-user
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nutanix / libvfio-user

libvfio-user

framework for emulating devices in userspace

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
240GitHub stars
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framework for emulating devices in userspace

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Observed mentions: 2023-04-24 17:28:41 UTC to 2026-06-22 21:41:57 UTC.

012023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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Cool. I've actually been playing with QEMU internals a lot recently. Specifically with the multi-process experimental features. Although I can't seem to find any consistency on where the main project is headed. They admit that the documentation pages can be well out-of-date with the upstream implementations, but they seem split-brained even within the code. The main project ships with the multi-process qemu approach, mostly defined in their docs: https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/multi-process.html https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/multi-process.html But I saw some update buried in a mailing list that development of the multi-process system has been superseded by vfio-user, mostly led by nutanix: https://github.com/nutanix/libvfio-user The nutanix repo refers to an oracle-led fork of qemu with the full vfio-user implementation
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built-in: https://github.com/oracle/qemu So, they're still separate projects, right? Well, kinda. the mainline project has the vfio-user-server implementation merged in: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/ac5f7bf8e208cd7893dbb1a952... But not the client side (vfio-user-pci). So, the feature is half-baked in the mainline project. I don't know if any of the qemu devs browse HN but it would be nice to hear more about the plans for vfio-user.
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