From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@fastmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 14:16:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57307FB7.5040600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160424163046.GD3822@pd.tnic>
On 24/04/2016 18:30, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> > +CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO=y
>> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_INPUT=y
>> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO=y
>> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO_CMDLINE_DEVICES=y
>> > --
> Frankly, I'm still not sure we want to do this. Apparently, virtio is
> the way to go on kvm but it is not absolutely necessary to get a booting
> guest.
>
> Paolo, what do you think?
I think adding virtio storage is a good idea for "make kvmconfig".
virtio-input is not _that_ useful on x86, but it's getting more useful
(recent QEMU can pass evdev events directly to a VM via virtio-input).
I'm ambivalent about it.
VIRTIO_MMIO should only be added by some ARM thing though.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-09 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-23 17:26 [PATCH v2] Enhance kvmconfig Andrey Utkin
2016-04-24 16:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-24 19:57 ` Andrey Utkin
2016-04-24 20:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-24 20:35 ` Andrey Utkin
2016-04-24 20:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 0:49 ` Andrey Utkin
2016-04-25 10:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-09 12:16 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-05-09 15:13 ` Andrey Utkin
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