From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 4/9] Basic guest virtual devices infrastructure Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:26:11 +0300 Message-ID: <46484753.30602@qumranet.com> References: <1178903957.25135.13.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <1178904958.25135.31.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org" , Christian Borntraeger , Martin Schwidefsky To: Carsten Otte Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1178904958.25135.31.camel-WIxn4w2hgUz3YA32ykw5MLlKpX0K8NHHQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Carsten Otte wrote: > From: Carsten Otte > > This patch adds support for a new bus type that manages paravirtualized > devices. The bus uses the s390 diagnose instruction to query devices, and > match them with the corresponding drivers. > Future enhancements should include hotplug and hotremoval of virtual devices > triggered by the host, and supend/resume of virtual devices for migration. > > Interesting. We could use a variation this for x86 as well, but I'm not sure how easy it is to integrate it into closed source OSes (Windows). The diag instruction could be replaced by a hypercall which would make the code generic. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/