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# vHost
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A pure rust library for vhost-user. This is a fork of [rust-vmm/vhost](https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost).
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The [vhost-user protocol](https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/interop/vhost-user.html#communication) aims to implement vhost backend drivers in
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userspace, which complements the ioctl interface used to control the vhost
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implementation in the Linux kernel. It implements the control plane needed
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to establish virtqueue sharing with a user space process on the same host.
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It uses communication over a Unix domain socket to share file descriptors in
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the ancillary data of the message.
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The protocol defines two sides of the communication, master and slave.
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Master is the application that shares its virtqueues, slave is the consumer
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of the virtqueues. Master and slave can be either a client (i.e. connecting)
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or server (listening) in the socket communication.
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