From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@birkenwald.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Freeze with KVM_CLOCK, undocumented dependency VIRTIO_BLK -> VIRTIO_PCI
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:27:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807041127.04434.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485EDEB8.3050109@birkenwald.de>
Am Montag, 23. Juni 2008 schrieb Bernhard Schmidt:
> I don't quite understand. VIRTIO_BLK can be selected in the kernel
> without selecting VIRTIO_PCI, it does not generate any build error but
> the virtual blockdevice simply does appear. Does VIRTIO_BLK have any use
> without VIRTIO_PCI?
Yes, it does.
virtio_pci is just one of currently 3 virtio transports.
drivers/lguest/lguest_devices.c (CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST) and
drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c are other transports that make virtio_blk
usable.
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-04 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-21 14:54 Freeze with KVM_CLOCK, undocumented dependency VIRTIO_BLK -> VIRTIO_PCI Bernhard Schmidt
2008-06-22 2:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-22 23:22 ` Bernhard Schmidt
2008-07-04 9:27 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2008-07-02 10:11 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-07-03 14:03 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-03 14:44 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-07-03 14:49 ` Avi Kivity
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