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authorJohn Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>2022-05-16 17:17:46 +0100
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over a UNIX socket to a server. This library, `libvfio-user`, provides an API
for implementing such servers.
+![vfio-user example block diagram](docs/libvfio-user.png)
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[VFIO](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vfio.txt) is a kernel facility
for providing secure access to PCI devices in userspace (including pass-through
to a VM). With `vfio-user`, instead of talking to the kernel, all interactions