rust-vmm/vhost-device

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'vhost-user' device backends workspace

Stars: 137
Forks: 92
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 24
Avg merge: 2d 12h
Merged PRs (30d): 9

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted

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24 open issues indexed

vhost-device-gpio: Inverted return using value function Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#981 · Opened Jul 9, 2026
vhost-device-sound in Xen environment: No soundcards found. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#972 · Opened Jun 18, 2026
vsock: 0 byte receive in guest after accept Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#963 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 6, 2026
vsock: issue with large TX packets from Linux 6.17 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#934 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 26, 2026
vhost-device-can: messages sent from the guest are always looped back Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#925 · 18 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2026
vhost-device-can: the device does not return the descriptors to the rx queue Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#923 · Opened Jan 6, 2026
vhost-device-vsock doesn't support half-open states Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#874 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2025
vhost-device-vsock (and maybe others): how do I know when it's listening? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#873 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 10, 2025
vhost on macOS? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#857 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Interest in a WebGPU backend for virtio-gpu? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#841 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 2, 2025
Add man page for vhost-device-gpu Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#824 · Opened Mar 4, 2025
vhost-device-console: Request to add UDS backend type Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#815 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 13, 2025
vhost-device-sound: Add audio controls features to the virtio-sound device Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#807 · Opened Feb 7, 2025
CI: There's no need to run unit tests/coverage for all crates if a PR touches only a specific crate and *nothing* workspace-wide Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#791 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 6, 2024
Make error logs more descriptive Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#682 · Opened Jul 10, 2024
sound: test_pipewire_backend_invalid_stream panics with "Failed to connect to core: CreationFailed" Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#647 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2024
Problem with interrupt support for vhost-device-gpio and QEMU 8.1.1 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#613 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 3, 2024
Simplify descriptor chain building in tests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#560 · Opened Nov 30, 2023
vsock: how can host vsock server accepting every guest cid? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#551 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2023
[sound] to check if the handling of errors in the backend shall be returned to guest or to caller Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#502 · Opened Oct 25, 2023
[sound] add a comment to explain latency value Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#501 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 25, 2023
vsock: Issues in sibling VM communication Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#384 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 5, 2023
vsock: Have two separate threads for handling TX and RX Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#323 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2023
Allow controlling of the maximum queue size for daemons Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

rust-vmm/vhost-device#202 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2022

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