How-to use paravirt layer for network and block devices

How-to use paravirt layer for network and block devices

[Cameron Macdonell]

Hi,

What are the command-line options necessary to get the guest devices  
to use the paravirt layer?

Thanks,
Cam

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A. Cameron Macdonell
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Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
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Re: How-to use paravirt layer for network and block devices

[Dor Laor]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 10:50 -0700, Cameron Macdonell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What are the command-line options necessary to get the guest devices  
> to use the paravirt layer?
> 

For network you use '-net nic,model=virtio',
I hope to write a wiki page for it tomorrow.

> Thanks,
> Cam
> 
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Re: How-to use paravirt layer for network and block devices

[Cam Macdonell]

Dor Laor wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 10:50 -0700, Cameron Macdonell wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What are the command-line options necessary to get the guest devices  
>> to use the paravirt layer?
>>
> 
> For network you use '-net nic,model=virtio',
> I hope to write a wiki page for it tomorrow.
> 

Great, thanks.  How does block devices work?  Can they work with a QEMU 
virtual disk?  I look forward to the wiki.

Cheers,
Cam

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Re: How-to use paravirt layer for network and block devices

[Cam Macdonell]

Dor Laor wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 10:50 -0700, Cameron Macdonell wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What are the command-line options necessary to get the guest devices  
>> to use the paravirt layer?
>>
> 
> For network you use '-net nic,model=virtio',
> I hope to write a wiki page for it tomorrow.
> 

Pardon my impatience, but in the guest rhel5 (with rusty's patches) the 
ethernet card is not detected.  What type of card will a virtio card 
show up as?

Thanks,
Cam

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