From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:00:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D01517.6000206@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803061959.22534.balajirrao@gmail.com>
Balaji Rao wrote:
>> Excellent, thanks!
>>
>> Just 1 question: Above is the instruction for guest. How about the
>> host? Dont we need to install anything??
>>
>> I suppose that qemu in the latest kvm package already supported
>> virtio, but I think we need some support from host kernel as well?
>>
> Hi Jun,
>
> No, AFAIK we don't need any support from the host kernel. We just need a
> virtio backend to be present in qemu, which is there in the latest
> kvm-userspace.
>
Correct. In the future, we may have kernel backends but you should
still be able to use the userspace backends.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-06 9:26 [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1 Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <7fac565a0803060148k418756f1sb558993f9a5aad1c@mail.gmail.com>
2008-03-06 10:12 ` Alexey Eremenko
2008-03-06 15:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-03-06 10:31 ` Jun Koi
2008-03-06 11:08 ` Thomas Mueller
2008-03-06 14:29 ` Balaji Rao
2008-03-06 16:00 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-03-06 22:19 ` Iain Paton
2008-03-07 2:52 ` Paul Collins
2008-03-16 14:47 ` Avi Kivity
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