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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Target-agnostic virtio?
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Can the virtio things (serial, network, block, virtfs) be used on =20
arbitrary targets yet? I.E. Can I use a virtio network device on arm, =20
mips, powerpc, sparc... (And can the virtio serial console hook up to =20
qemu's stdin/stdout in -nographic mode yet?)

I asked this in 2010 and the answer at the time was "no". Still not =20
entirely sure why.

Rob=