Crate virtio_spec 

This crate contains the Rust equivalents of the definitions from the Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) Specification. This crate aims to be unopinionated regarding actual VIRTIO drivers that are implemented on top of this crate.

Usage

We recommend to rename this crate to virtio when adding the dependency. This allows closely matching the specification when using definitions:

• VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM from the specification becomes virtio::net::F::CSUM in this crate.
• virtio_net_config from the specification becomes virtio::net::Config in this crate.

Either run

cargo add virtio-spec --rename virtio

or manually edit your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
virtio = { package = "virtio-spec", version = "x.y.z" }

Features

This crate has the following Cargo features:

• alloc enables allocating unsized structs such as virtq::Avail and virtq::Used via the allocator_api2 crate.
• mmio enables the mmio module for Virtio Over MMIO.
• nightly enables nightly-only functionality.
• pci enables the pci module for Virtio Over PCI via the pci_types crate.
• zerocopy derives the following traits for most structs:
  • zerocopy::KnownLayout
  • zerocopy::Immutable
  • zerocopy::FromBytes
  • zerocopy::IntoBytes

Implementation Status

This crate adds new modules by demand. If you need anything that is not available yet, please open an issue.

Virtqueues

Virtqueue	Available	Module
Split Virtqueues	✅	virtq
Packed Virtqueues	✅	pvirtq

Transport Options

Transport Option	Available	Module
PCI Bus	✅	pci
MMIO	✅	mmio
Channel I/O	❌

Device Types

Device Type	Available	Module
Network Device	✅	net
Block Device	✅	blk
Console Device	✅	console
Entropy Device	✅	None required
Traditional Memory Balloon Device	✅	balloon
SCSI Host Device	❌
GPU Device	❌
Input Device	❌
Crypto Device	❌
Socket Device	✅	vsock
File System Device	✅	fs
RPMB Device	❌
IOMMU Device	❌
Sound Device	❌
Memory Device	❌
I2C Adapter Device	❌
SCMI Device	❌
GPIO Device	❌
PMEM Device	❌

Modules

balloon

Traditional Memory Balloon Device

blk

Block Device

console

Console Device

fs

File System Device

mmiommio

Definitions for Virtio over MMIO.

net

Network Device

pcipci

Definitions for Virtio over PCI bus.

pvirtq

Packed virtqueue definitions

virtq

Virtqueue definitions

volatile

Volatile Pointer Types.

vsock

Socket Device

Structs

Be

An integer stored in big-endian byte order.

DeviceStatus

Device Status Field

F

Device-independent Feature Bits

Le

An integer stored in little-endian byte order.

Enums

Id

Virtio Device IDs

RingEventFlags

Descriptor Ring Change Event Flags

Traits

DeviceConfigSpace

Common device configuration space functionality.

FeatureBits

Feature Bits

Type Aliases

be16linux-types

A 16-bit unsigned integer stored in big-endian byte order.

be32linux-types

A 32-bit unsigned integer stored in big-endian byte order.

be64linux-types

A 64-bit unsigned integer stored in big-endian byte order.

be128linux-types

A 128-bit unsigned integer stored in big-endian byte order.

le16linux-types

A 16-bit unsigned integer stored in little-endian byte order.

le32linux-types

A 32-bit unsigned integer stored in little-endian byte order.

le64linux-types

A 64-bit unsigned integer stored in little-endian byte order.

le128linux-types

A 128-bit unsigned integer stored in little-endian byte order.