[kata-dev] GSoC 2021: vhost-user-vsock application and Kata Containers integration

Ariel Adam aadam at redhat.com
Sun May 23 06:55:24 UTC 2021


On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 1:14 PM Harshavardhan Unnibhavi <
harshanavkis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am Harshavardhan Unnibhavi. I am one of QEMU's google summer of code
> students for this year. I will be working with Fabiano FidĂȘncio and
> Stefano Garzarella on developing a vhost-user-vsock application and
> integrating it with Kata Container.
>
> Kata Containers leverage virtio-vsock to create a communication
> channel between the runtime in the host and the agent in the guest.
> Since, Kata Containers focus on security moving this device emulation
> into an external user space process is very attractive. Hence, in this
> project, we aim to realize an application, written in rust, that will
> leverage the vhost-user protocol to emulate the virtio-vsock device in
> an external process. This application would then be integrated into
> Kata Containers.
>
> I am looking forward to working on this very cool project! I also look
> forward to learning from and interacting with the kata community.
>
>
Best of luck Harsha and welcome aboard :-).

Thanks.


> Best,
> Harsha
>
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