Feature changed by: Antoine Ginies (aginies) Feature #314468, revision 11 - Title: IVSHMEM support for KVM + Title: KVM: IVSHMEM support Requested by: yi li (liyicybertan123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: inter-VM directly commutincation, using IVSHMEM and reduce the cost between the VMs and VMM Discussion: #1: Michal Svec (msvec) (2013-08-06 15:48:43) We need more details what exactly is requested. #2: yi li (liyicybertan123) (2013-08-07 06:32:38) (reply to #1) ivshmem is an implementation of an inter-VM communication channel The Inter-VM shared memory device is designed to share a region of memory to userspace in multiple virtual guests. The memory region does not belong to any guest, but is a POSIX memory object on the host. i have check the kvm code, it is supported now. do we support it using the libvirt ? #3: chen zhen (hydracz) (2013-08-07 07:01:29) Customer will use IVSHMEM shared memory to communicate among Guests OS or between Host and Guests, this will be a more efficient way to communicate (LOW-LATENCY, HIGH-BANDWIDTH). our partner Huawei is planning to enable this feature in VMs and allow application to use it please also refers to below URL for more details: http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/c/cc/2011-forum-nahanni.v5.for.public.p... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314468