=== VirtIO Sockets and AF_VSOCK support Links: + link:https://github.com/daniloegea/freebsd-src/tree/virtio_vsocks[Source code] URL: link:https://github.com/daniloegea/freebsd-src/tree/virtio_vsocks[] Contact: Danilo Egea Gondolfo The VirtIO Socket device is used to enable communication between guests and host without networking. The AF_VSOCK protocol family enables it to be used through the sockets API. For the past many months I have been working on a guest driver for the link:https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.2/cs01/virtio-v1.2-cs01.html#x1-43600010[VirtIO Socket] device and an implementation of the AF_VSOCK protocol family. Originally, I wanted to get the link:https://github.com/canonical/lxd/[lxd-agent] daemon link:https://github.com/canonical/lxd/issues/11603[working on FreeBSD] but the communication with the LXD host daemon is done through VSOCKs. LXD is a nice container and virtual machine manager based on Linux/KVM and my end goal is to make FreeBSD a LXD first-class citizen. At the moment I have it working well enough to enable the lxd-agent to work. I adapted the `golang.org/x/sys` library and the lxd-agent to support AF_VSOCK on FreeBSD. Features such as command execution, interactive consoles and file transfer are working. On Linux, AF_VSOCK can be used with VirtIO, HyperV and VMware sockets as transports. I am trying to design my implementation so it will also be possible to use it with different transports in the future. After getting the current work in a good shape, ideas for future work include integration of AF_VSOCK and HyperV Sockets (which is already supported on FreeBSD through AF_HYPERV), VIRTIO_VSOCK_F_SEQPACKET, VirtIO Socket device for bhyve and the host side of the driver. I will continue to slowly work on this on my limited free time and hopefully have something more concrete for the next time. There is still a lot of work to be done until it become ready for code review.