CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK: vhost virtio-vsock driver

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK:

• prompt: vhost virtio-vsock driver
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_VSOCKETS && CONFIG_EVENTFD
• defined in drivers/vhost/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.8–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12
• modules built: vhost_vsock

Help text

This kernel module can be loaded in the host kernel to provide AF_VSOCK sockets for communicating with guests. The guests must have the virtio_transport.ko driver loaded to use the virtio-vsock device.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called vhost_vsock.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module vhost_vsock CONFIG_VHOST_VSOCK : drivers/vhost/Kconfig : "vhost virtio-vsock driver" # in 4.8–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12

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This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

The data is retrived from:

• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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