Comment by dymk
3 months ago
This is a weird article. It’s titled “how to use vsock” but 95% is how to set up Bazel, gRPC, and building a C++ project. And then 5% is a link to an off-site Twitter thread of screenshots for setting up a Linux VM image and running that in qemu.
This should have been a VM with a basic server and socat’ing the vsocket. I don’t know why so much space was dedicated to unrelated topics. Also zero qualifications or benchmarks for “fast” compared to tcp/virtio.
Author says “no ssh keys” when ssh is an orthogonal concept. sshd can listen on a vsock interface, it’s not specific to tcp/ip.
From the “Under the hood” section, which should be the part actually about vsock:
> I haven’t delved into the low-level system API for vsocks, as frameworks typically abstract this away.
> This is a weird article. It’s titled “how to use vsock” but 95% is how to set up Bazel, gRPC, and building a C++ project.
This is just what happens when you use bazel to quickly set up your project.