rust-vmm/vhost

Don't always enable vm-memory/backend-mmap

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#179 opened on Jul 20, 2023

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Description

We enabled this recently, https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost/pull/175, to make the builds pass but maybe we should get around this with an alternative solution which doesn't require the forceful enabling here.

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Research direction
Investigate why vm memory/backend mmap was forcefully enabled in PR #175 and propose an alternative solution that doesn't require it.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend
Issue type
Refactor
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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RustCargo
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50